Author Archive: Retro

A charming doctor who kills his female patients is discovered by a private detective in this made for television movie.

Aging musician injures his hand right before the performance he has waited a lifetime for, and, abandoned by his grown children, he begins performing on the street for coins. Dir. Harold Daniels.

Murderous organization tries to stop several countries from forming the world-wide Clipper Ship air service. Feature version of the serial “Ace Drummond”. Dir. Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith

An international jewel thief falls in love with a wealthy girl in the Casbah. AAN Boyer and Lockhart

Lee Van Cleef at his most facially challenged plays a retired safeman, who comes back from Mexico to New York to do one job for a friend’s kid.

An English diplomat’s girlfriend tags along as he takes a coded message to Geneva.

In this drama, a writer, dissatisfied with his flagging career, decides to raise some money by walking from New York to San Francisco in six months. Along the way, he will be writing about the experience. One of his buddies bets that the writer won’t make it, and this makes him even more determined. Along the way, a terrible storm erupts forcing the intrepid ambler to take refuge in a cabin. There he encounters a runaway and her two little sisters. Trouble ensues when the cabin’s owner and some mobsters show up to retrieve their loot. The writer is ecstatic. At last he has some decent material to write about. He joyfully begins to write.

A dog named Mooch comes to Hollywood and tries to make it in show business with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor (narrator).

Henry (James Mason) and Emilie Smedhurst (Barbara Mullen) are an older couple who have been successful in business and are nearing retirement. They buy a dilapidated mansion that has been vacant for 40 years, intending to renovate. However, soon after the Smedhursts move in, they hear that the house is haunted. They dismiss the theory — until their young guest, Annette Allenby (Margaret Lockwood), is possessed by the spirit of a murdered invalid on an eternal quest for retribution.