Author Archive: Retro

Actress takes an ocean cruise to avoid an amorous movie producer, but finds out he is on board as well, with embezzled money. When he turns up murdered and robbed, she is the number one suspect. Dir. William Christy Cabanne

After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

Villain known as “The Wrecker” tries to sabotage a railroad company to make room for a competing airline service. It’s up to the son of a murdered engineer to stop his plans. Feature version of Serial. Written by Colbert Clark & J.P. McGowan. Dir. J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer

A man and his girlfriend driving in their car have an accident. The man gets amnesia and wanders away from the accident. He is taken in by a traveling preacher, and several years later returns to his hometown as the Rev. Tad Morgan, still unaware of his previous life there. His girlfriend, who was injured in the accident and is now an ex-convict living with her crook boyfriend in a sleazy apartment, decides to take her revenge on the now-respectable preacher.

Veteran teacher, passed up for a promotion to principal, focuses on keeping her students out of trouble.

Fascinating Depression curio about a hobo who tries to reform for the sake of a beautiful girl.

Division of the CIA which intercepts and decodes secret messages assigns an officer to try and break up a ring of spies. Dir. Charles Lamont

British army major finds a seductive native girl living in the jungle who may be a Nazi informer. Unfortunately he and his troops must rely on her to guide them through a dangerous, uncharted region of Africa. Written by Barr? Lyndon. Dir. Henry Hathaway