Author Archive: Retro

Young elevator operator and his detective brother attempt to solve a number of murders.

Dir. Jean Yarborough. During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar (Karloff), also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

A spooky castle with secret passages and trapdoors is the playground of a mysterious figure known as the Green Archer. Detective Spike Holland must penetrate this fortress to find a missing woman. 15 Chapters. Dir. James W. Horne.

The Central American jungle is the setting as two marines compete for the same girl, but must band together to battle a gang of bandits Dir. David Howard.

An ex-convict stock-car driver turns to crime to fund his escape from local bigots in rural Georgia.

Nazis control an operation in a secret jungle headquarters.

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman’s interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.

Mercenary boat captain in Key West is hired to carry a CIA agent and some other derelicts to Cuba with plans to assassinate Fidel Castro. Dir. Chuck Workman