Author Archive: Retro

Retired race-car driver gets into the trucking business and into trouble. Dir. Bernard B. Ray.

Dir. Nigel Patrick. An Irish priest suspects muder when a drunken author is killed. Neat, well-made thriller.

Decent spy comedy with Secombe saving an atomic formula from enemy hands.

An evil, but brilliant, doctor makes beautiful women his sexual “slaves” with a powerful, mind-altering drug called “kemek”. AKA: FOR LOVE OR MURDER.

Innocent shopgirl goes into hiding when she thinks she’s killed her boss. Dir. Frank Strayer.

Davenport fakes his death to avoid being ruined by rival stable owner Gordon, willing his racehorse to his daughter, who is coveted by Gordon, and his partner, who must figure out why the horse can’t seem to win a race. Produced by Charles Lamont. Dir. Charles Lamont.

When a social worker suspects that an adoption agency isn’t quite what it seems, she investigates. Sure enough, the agency deals in black-market babies. Soon there is an attempt on the social worker’s life, which makes her even more convinced that she’s right.

Football hero gets kicked off the team and fired from his job because he isn’t ruthless enough, but when he sets up a business hijacking a bootlegger’s cargo, he gets the chance to prove himself.

Respected Shakesperean thespian fiercely guides and guards his daughter’s acting career.