Author Archive: Retro

Diligent, dedicated orphan lives with his abusive uncle who refuses to treat him fairly.

A test driver (Richard Arlen) tries racing with his girlfriend’s (Peggy Moran) father’s new engine.

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing- some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman…

College graduate takes over the publishing of his mother’s newspaper in order to modernize it, but ends up running it to the brink of bankruptcy.

Man is jeered for thinking he is Jesus Christ, but the ridicule ceases when he begins performing miracles. English subtitles.

While travelling on an ocean liner, newspaper reporter Boyd investigates the murder of a tycoon. Dir. Sam Newfield

American Frank Chandler assumes the name Chandu and uses his mystical powers to stop a cult. Feature version of the Serial. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Ray Taylor

A 1958 re-broadcast of the 1949 television version of Dickens’s story, this time telecast as an episode of “Family Theatre”.