Author Archive: Retro

Young jockey Darro rescues a crippled horse from the glue factory, and must beat the fastest horse in the country to clear his brother of an accusation that he threw a race. Dir. Irving Pichel.

Samuel Fuller was originally set to direct this turgid racial melodrama but jumped ship, replaced by Terence Young. Lee Marvin stars as Sheriff Bascomb, the entire law enforcement department in a small Southern town, who is trying to keep a lid on local Ku Klux Klan activity. But racial tensions first simmer and then explode when Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is raped and the town’s mayor Hardy (David Huddleston), who is also the head of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, blames an innocent black man for the crime. Also involved in the proceedings is local landowner Breck Stancill (Richard Burton), who must have modeled his Southern accent on the soupy delivery of James Mason in Mandingo.

Tarzan swings to rescue a young woman from an evil African ruler, who whisks her away to his harem in a hidden fortress. Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. David Ross Lederman

Two scheming ne’er-do-wells find a lost nuclear weapon in the ocean near Los Angeles. They decide to light-heartedly try and blackmail the city by asking for money from each citizen. This arouses the attention of the local authorities.

Mile-a-Minute-Love is a 1937 American drama film written by Duncan Renaldo who also stars as phony Spanish Count Ribalto. The ersatz count steals a racing boat and swindles Wynne Drexel out of $100,000.

A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff.

A burning building is the setting for acts of courage and cowardice. Dir. Armand Schaefer and Colbert Clark.

Love-blinded attorney gets an acquittal for his murderous former client Lansbury, only to find out she was using him. Guilt-ridden, he asks her to kill him so justice may be done. Dir. Peter Godfrey

Simple clerk discovers his boss has been embezzling money to finance a French mistress, and accidentally kills him. With the French mistress and embezzled money in tow, he now must dodge the police on the streets of Paris. Color.