Author Archive: Retro

Philandering trapeze artist plots against his good-hearted partner when they both fall for the same girl. Dir. John H. Auer.

Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys ate shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiance, they set up their own government on the atoll. Uranium is discovered and world powers begin fighting over ownership of the island.

Rich girl wants a man to marry her for love, not money. Disowning her wealth, she finds a mate, but they are soon up to their necks in financial woes.

Adulterous man is unjustly accused when his alibi is murdered.

First of the series with Kibbee as Scattergood, who works his way up the economic ladder of Coldriver, a small New England village, while staying in the good graces of his neighbors. Dir. Fritz Lang.

An adventureer tires to settle down in a quite Mexican fishing village but finds himself trapped between his vengeance-seaking ex-boss and marauding killer sharks. The opposing forces come together in a deadly showdown during the villagers’ ancient ritual, the Night of the Sharks.

A stunt pilot is accused of stealing a plane.

Transcontinental airplane is forced down in the desert during a storm, and the survivors find refuge in a deserted house, only to discover that one of them is a killer. Dir. Frank Strayer

A lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.