Author Archive: Retro

A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

Family pressures lead a man to forsake his true love, who has a difficult time forgetting about him.

Simple Russian villagers find their happy lives interrupted when the Nazis ignore former treaties and begin a brutal occupation of Russia. Lots of songs written by Ira Gershwin and Aaron Copland. Produced by William Cameron Menzies. Dir. Lewis Milestone

Small child deals with the separation of his parents and their joint custody of him, which forces him to bounce back and forth from Indiana to New York. Dir. Charles Lamont.

A honeymoon air service is almost out of business when one of its customers is involved in espionage with foreign agents attempting to steal vital air defense secrets.

Businessman Edmund Gilbert Edmund Gwenn and his daughter Lilian Wendy Barrie are a well-to-do father and daughter caught in the down-draft of the British economic depression — he’s a financier without finance, and they’re both struggling to put on a big front as their resources disappear. When Paul Martin (Robert Donat), a once-wealthy young man trying to survive as an employee of the gas-works, shows up to turn off their utilities, it seems like the end — but Paul takes a fancy to Lilian and decides to leave their gas and power on. And Mr. Gilbert suddenly takes a fancy to Paul when the younger man discovers that an escaping thief who bumped into him on the underground has left $100,000 on Paul’s person. Now Edmund wants the young man as his partner in a new venture, to attract other investors, and matters become more comically complicated still as the byzantine world of romance and [...]

Just before dying of a gunshot wound, a cop asks a widowed antique store owner to look after his good-hearted but mischievous son, who will soon be arriving from Europe. Dir. Sam Wood.

In this thriller, a man has only a limited amount of time left to save his life.

Urged on by anti-German hysteria in WWI America, two German-American pilots join the German airforce, but when America enters the war effort, they may be executed as traitors. Dir. David Howard