Author Archive: Retro

This 1936 film is in black and white and is a drama based on events in the American Civil War and starts with citizens choosing loyalty to the Confederate States of America or to the Union in the first days of the crisis. Early scenes show the burning of the USS Merrimack by its Union crew to prevent it from falling into Confederate hands. However, the Merrimack, which had been burnt down to the waterline, was later rebuilt by the Confederacy, as an ironclad, and was renamed the CSS Virginia.

Nicholson plans to poison Huston’s bride in order to gain an inheritance.

Tailspin Tommy runs an aviation club for juvenile delinquents, but when one of them hooks up with the mob, it’s up to Tommy to set him straight. Based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest. Dir. Howard Bretherton

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

Confederate soldier becomes obsesses with revenge after his former subordinates torture him, rape his wife and kill his child.

A recently divorced scientist relocates to a remote area to escape women.

A socialite joins the WACs expecting to be made an officer, but has to tough it out as an ordinary private.

A little known adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic.

A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn’t know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.