Author Archive: Retro

An old warehouse worker dreams of saving enough money to return to his native Ireland, but it would seem unlikely. A young man who also works there is in a bad fix, he too has little money but his baby is sick and needs medicine he can’t afford. He gambles with the dock workers and loses what little he had. Meanwhile, the old man discovers he has a valuable dollar with the winning serial number in a newspaper contest.

The dead-beat husband of a rich woman who, after finding out she’s going to divorce him, takes out a life insurance policy on her and hires a hit man (Bill Dana aka Jose Jimenez) to do the dirty work. Then he finds out that the insurance policy is invalid, thanks to the incompetant doctor (Pat Morita) who performed the most discreet physical in medical “hystery”! The husband then tries to stop the hit, only to find that it has been sub-contracted about a dozen times!

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An American hit man is tricked into killing an underworld kingpin in Naples.

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Based on Jack London’s novel of the adventures of a miner and his faithful canine companion in the frozen North.

A charming doctor who kills his female patients is discovered by a private detective in this made for television movie.

Aging musician injures his hand right before the performance he has waited a lifetime for, and, abandoned by his grown children, he begins performing on the street for coins. Dir. Harold Daniels.

Murderous organization tries to stop several countries from forming the world-wide Clipper Ship air service. Feature version of the serial “Ace Drummond”. Dir. Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith