Author Archive: Retro

When two soldiers from the early 1800s try to rearrange their particular place in the scheme of the military hierarchy and manage to get themselves killed in the process, they are called before Queen Anne in the hereafter and sentenced to haunt a mansion until released by visiting royalty. Made entertaining less by the hackneyed plot line than by the photographic techniques used to make the ghosts assume human forms and the good cast.

New York gangster hiding out on a tiny island supplies sabotaged torpedoes to the Nazis, but when an ex-NYC cop is shipwrecked on the island, his livlihood is endangered. Dir. Albert Kelley

A prison break is attempted the same night an execution occurs on death row.

Thrilling Western of cavalry versus the Indians.

Once of Laughton’s most famous roles as the infamous buccaneer in search of treasure on the high seas with a savage gang of cutthroats. AAN for music.

A secret sect of cannibals owns a vegetarian restaurant, which they use as a cover so they can find a beautiful young woman to serve as the main course at their full-moon sacrifice.

A man and woman run for their lives in the time of tribulation. A Christian woman (Delana Michaels) wants a newspaper man (Greg Wynne) to publish a story about a One World Foundation being set up whose only goal is to control the world. She wants him to warn people that this is coming and explain how it ties into the end times spoken about in the Bible. The newsman is opposed to such an idea until he sees the woman being pursued by the Foundation. As this adventure unfolds, the newspaper man begins to realize that what the woman is saying could be true. This evangelistic, classic end times film

Hungry orphan stumbles into a career as a model and falls in love with the rich owner of the ad agency, but is despised and betrayed by his snobbish family. Dir. Frank Strayer. A young woman looking for work finds a job as a model for an ad agency owned by two brothers who fall in love with her.

A firebug racket is exposed by an agent who joins the arson ring.