Author Archive: Retro

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…

After losing his legs in a mill accident and his wife and company to a competitor, a man organizes beggars into a successful corporation. Dir. Phil Rosen.

This ’70s eco-thriller involves the rapidly shrinking amount of farmland in the world, due to over-industrialization. Several groups become desperate to control food, and a vicious fight breaks out between rural areas (which control grain supplies) and urban centers (which contain most of the world’s population). ~ John Bush, Rovi

A movie studio is shrouded in mystery when its top star is murdered on the set, and everyone is a suspect. Bela Lugosi plays a temperamental actor who’s the most likely suspect, alongside Dracula co-stars Edward Van Sloan, David Manners.