Author Archive: Retro

Joseph von Sternberg’s final film about a woman marooned on a small island with 30 lecherous men. Filmed in Japan.

Historical drama about shy young princess who arrives in Russia to marry the Grand Duke. She eventually overcomes that which tries to keep her down to become a great Czarina.Produced by Alexander Korda. Dir. Paul Czinner

In this Stan Laurel produced comedy, the Boys find that things are not always what they seem when they meet their identical twins they thought were hanged at sea and who are now a pair of happy-go-lucky sailors on leave. And if this isn’t bad enough it only gets worse when the Boys meet up with their twins wives and find themselves running from the local gangsters! Dir. Harry Lachman

Married radio stars each get a British evacuee on their respective shows. When one guest says he lives in a castle–“The Castle” being the name of a pub–he is believed to be a missing lord’s heir. Based on the radio series by Daniels and Lyon. Written by Val Guest, Marriott Edgar and J.O.C. Orton. Dir. Andrew L. Stone.

Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.

Noel Coward’s attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of World War II.

From H. Rider Haggard’s weird, wondrous story of the beautiful woman who bathed in flame and lived 500 years .. at last to find her first love at this very hour!
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide’s daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo’s ancestor.

Charming but lazy Irishman masquerades as a royal heir and proves a thing or two to his neighbors.