Author Archive: Retro

In this odd crime film, Scotland Yard begins searching for the one-armed killer behind a series of gruesome murders. The story begins in Burma during WW II with the capture and torture of a British captain and his two men. The soldiers refuse to give the Burmese information, and their interrogators chop off their right hands. The captain relents and tells them all they want to know; thereby, preserving his own hand. The story leaps ahead into the present where a series of murders involving amputations have occurred. The Yard detectives trace the killings to the former captain. He is pursued by the police. He flees across some railroad tracks, falls and has his hand cut off by a passing train.

A young woman searches for her mother while trying to avoid a killer.

A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy

Surgeon takes up flying to forget about a failed operation, but when he crashes at a remote trading post, he finds the owner needs the same operation. Dir. Louis J. Gasnier.

When her father dies, a young girl takes over his logging company and works to fill an order from the U.S. government, but someone on the inside is working to ensure that she fails.

Three gamblers escape the law by posing as clergymen, but are a little too convincing.

British army general is close to retiring, but is short of funds to buy a retirement cottage, so when he leaves on business, his wife and servants concoct a plan to make the extra money. Dir. John Emerson.