Author Archive: Retro

Special agent is sent to capture the female head of a band of outlaws.

Story of European royalty, cold but regal queens, playful kings and the love affairs of princessess forbidden to marry commoners.

Fiery tempered young man can’t keep a job, but is given one more chance to prove himself as a process server.

Dir. Hitchcock.

Dr. Holden (Ralph Bellamy) is “The Healer” (the original title) in this 1930s morally uplifting pot-boiler. He is a doctor that has come home to a warm springs to try to heal children from the unnamed crippling disease (polio). He runs a destitute camp for these children, assisted by Evelyn Allen (Karen Morley) who looks upon the Doc as a great man. Jimmy (Mickey Rooney) is a paraplegic kid whom the Doc promises to cure. This little triangle is interrupted by a rich girl Joan Bradshaw (Judith Allen) who cons the good Doc into building a sanitorium for the wealthy with her father’s money. Doc is momentarily swayed, but comes to his senses just as a forest fire threatens his original cabins around the warm spring. His treatment of Jimmy pays off as Jimmy rides a bicycle to save the day. Doc realizes that his true love is Evelyn, not the self-interested Joan.

FBI agent is after “The Illustrious One”, the female leader of a Chinese smuggling ring who poses as the head of a travelling carnival. Dir. Bernard B. Ray (Raymond K. Johnson)

Pair of vagabonds arrive in Hollywood with only 25 cents between them.

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée’s house, in order to enable his friend Carmichael to use the house in the family’s absence for a gambling party.

Professor Logan (Leo G. Carroll) is involved in an adult panel discussion of five sex-related issues dramatized in five separate but integrated sequences: “Honeymoon” (pre-marital relations), “Homecoming'(extra-marital relations), “The Divorcee” (promiscuity among divorcees), “Average Man” (problems of the average man in sexual relations) and “Baby” (a story of abortion).