Author Archive: Retro

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

Determinted policewoman goes undercover to exposure a Mexican drug ring and ends up hooking up with an undercover gangster!

A family is bothered by a mischievous ghost that possesses their younger daughter. Dir. Francis Searle.

Two conmen plan to make money from a fake oil well.

An insurance investigator goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a colleague.

In this melodrama, a recently-abandoned wife consoles herself by heading for Reno and falling in love. Her new lover is married to a jealous woman who shoots him when she learns of the affair, leaving the sadder-but-wiser other woman to try to make up with her own wayward spouse.

The Bumsteads try to go on vacation, but Dagwood’s boss is plotting to keep them from leaving. Dir. Edward Bernds.

Competitive Air Force lieutenants feud with each other over a girl. Dir. Leigh Jason. Army research fliers take a trip into outer space in a large newly devised sphere, and find their controls don’t work too well.

Documents Lincoln’s life from birth through assassination, including his alleged affair with Ann Rutledge, his early lawyer days, the decision to declare war on the south and more. Produced by D.W. Griffith, his first talking film. Dir. D.W. Griffith.