Author Archive: Retro

We feel assured when veteran actor Gilbert Roland shows up in the prologue of the independently produced Treasure of Tayopa. Alas, this is the last we’ll see of Roland until the epilogue. The rest of the film is Amateur Night in Old Mexico. The never-popular Rene Winters heads the cast as the leader of an expedition into the Mexican hills in search of gold. Another all-time favorite, Phil Trapani, puts a damper on the proceedings with a series of brutal murders. He is unfortunately stopped before he can bump off the producer and director of Treasure of Tayopa. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Young man causes a stir by kissing the wrong girl at the movie theater.

Havoc erupts when a pig gives birth to ten piglets.

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.