Author Archive: Retro

After serving his term, an innocent man sent to prison for political reasons is denied parole when a prison guard who hates him gives a false testimony. Dir. Victor Halperin.

Gruesome steals a formula which freezes his victims and begins testing it out with a bank robbery. Based on the comic strip by Chester Gould. Dir. John Rawlins

Mr. Wong is an evil man posing as a mild-mannered Chinese shopkeeper in order to get his mitts on the 12 coins of Confucius, which will give him unlimited power. Based on Harry Stephen Keeler’s ethereal novel, “Sing Sing Nights”. Dir. William Nigh

Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.

A father begins conning his buddies so he can get enough money to provide the kind of dowry that will attract a nobleman to his daughter in this drama based on Balzac’s play Mercadet Le Falseur.

Foreign correspondent helps start a musical uprising in a country that has banned music.

Wealthy businessman disowns his carousing son until he decides to work for the family business, but junior has other plans, like falling in love with a small town minister’s daughter, who goes to work incognito as a secretary to her prospective father-in-law in order to bring the family back together. Dir. John Emerson.

An auto racer calls it quits when he and his friend have a brush with death.