Author Archive: Retro

Two scheming ne’er-do-wells find a lost nuclear weapon in the ocean near Los Angeles. They decide to light-heartedly try and blackmail the city by asking for money from each citizen. This arouses the attention of the local authorities.

Mile-a-Minute-Love is a 1937 American drama film written by Duncan Renaldo who also stars as phony Spanish Count Ribalto. The ersatz count steals a racing boat and swindles Wynne Drexel out of $100,000.

A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff.

A burning building is the setting for acts of courage and cowardice. Dir. Armand Schaefer and Colbert Clark.

Love-blinded attorney gets an acquittal for his murderous former client Lansbury, only to find out she was using him. Guilt-ridden, he asks her to kill him so justice may be done. Dir. Peter Godfrey

Simple clerk discovers his boss has been embezzling money to finance a French mistress, and accidentally kills him. With the French mistress and embezzled money in tow, he now must dodge the police on the streets of Paris. Color.

Young girl becomes a Broadway star with the help of a producer. Wanting to marry, they head off to find a justice of the peace, but on the way tragedy strikes. Produced by Sol C. Siegel.

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.