Author Archive: Retro

American spy being hidden from the Nazis by an Italian contact, learns that the contact’s wife is having an affair with a German officer, and wants the American out of the way. Dir. Irvin Kershner

East Side Kids harass Japanese shop-owners and uncover a spy ring out to overthrow the U.S. government. Dir. Walter Forde.

Excellent film portraying a young mechanic’s downward spiral into self-destruction when he commits a minor criminal act. Dir. Irving Pichel

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentement in Tahiti.

Outraged over river trade, a fueled Keene travels to Washington to meet with the President.

Con-men persuade a family to invest their life-savings in a phoney movie project and takes them for every penny. Dir. Melville Brown.

In this suspenser, set upon the campus of a women’s college, a strangler has come to call. Death ensues. The music instructor suspects that the killer is a member of the college.

Submarine officers Dorgan and Mason battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen. She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty.

Big-time racketeer Martin Martin, on the eve of his projected move into New York politics, barely escapes the District Attorney’s men who attempt to arrest him for a murder committed five-years earlier by Martin and his former partner Dane Cory. Martin, who knows that Cory has copped a plea with the D.A. to save himself, arranges a meeting. At the meeting, Cory’s henchman, Cute Freddie, shoots Martin and the latter kills Freddie. Cory hides in the Greenwich Village apartment of his girl friend, burlesque queen Lily White. With them is Lily’s six-year-old daughter, Elsie, and her dog Skipper. Martin trails Cory, but weakened by his bullet wound, is forced to seek refuge in an abandoned building next to Lily’s. Bad-to-the-bone Cory kicks Skipper and the dog finds shelter with Martin, where Elsie finds them sleeping. Martin is charmed by Elsie and the dog, whom he names Johnny One-Eye…