Author Archive: Retro

It’s up to the gang to stop a ring of saboteurs who are trying to steal the blueprints of a new plane. Features the two-fisted boys from Dead End in the comedy/drama series. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabe Dell and Billy Benedict.

Calvert as master detective Michael Waring, aka “The Falcon”, who is hired to clear the name of an innocent man accused of killing a racetrack operator. Dir. John Link

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.