Author Archive: Retro

A master blend of high comedy and tense emotional drama, A Letter of Introduction reteams Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, and Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, who’d previously costarred in the negligible Goldwyn Follies. Menjou plays John Mannering, a Barrymoresque actor who years earlier had divorced his wife and severed his relationship with his daughter Kay (Andrea Leeds). Now a grown woman, Kay aspires to an acting career, fully determined to make it on her own without her father’s help. She goes so far as to change her last name to Martin, and to keep her actual relationship to Mannering a secret from the public. This set-up leads to a dizzying series of complications, including the breakup of Mannering’s romance with a tootsie named Lydia Hoyt (Anne Sheridan), who falsely assumes that Kay is Mannering’s mistress, and Kay’s own romantic travails with vaudeville hoofer Barry Paige (George Murphy). Meanwhile, Kay’s ventriloquist friend Bergen and his dummy [...]

Artist Carradine is also an incurable strangler; killing his models once he completes their portraits, but one of them suspects his true nature… Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.

Hilarious, irreverant comedy about a gorgeous devil who tempts an monk. English subtitles.

Based on a popular radio/TV show from the ’50s, this is a collection of three stories. The first is of a middle-class family struggling to cope with the illness of their son. The second is about the son of an immigrant couple. The final is about a loving nurse.

Rival reporters turn detective to solve a string of murders, the victims of which all carry a mysterious calling card. Dir. Albert Ray

A spinster visits the big city and is mistaken for a feared murderess.

Handyman is in trouble when portraits of his female clients are sold with nude bodies added to them. Dir. William Nigh.

Police dog defends Shilling from her brutish boss and is banished to die in desert with his pregnant mate.

Biography of composer Franz Schubert, who found inspiration and music in the love of a young lady.