Author Archive: Retro

Screenplay and story by John Steinbeck. Story of Mexican boy living in a remote Indian village.

Bickford as a villain who slaughters the father of two brothers and kidnaps one to raise as his own.

Meek shop owner Langdon arranges his own window displays, but is “caught” by his wife in an innocent but compromising position with a mannequin! She promptly files for divorce, but that’s not all: neighbors see Langdon carrying a mannequin into his store, and begin to suspect he’s a murderer! Dir. William Beaudine

A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she’s menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city’s criminal underworld to find her.

Because Charlie Chan plans to return to Honolulu, he no longer needs the services of Birmingham, who gets a job as butler for William and Justine Bonner, two apparently phony psychics, who regularly host occult activities in their home. When Charlie’s pretty daughter Frances attends a seance out of curiosity, Mr. Bonner is shot, and she becomes an immediate suspect. Charlie postpones his trip home to help with the investigation, which is made problematic when no bullet can be found in the wound and a hypnotized Mrs. Bonner is compelled to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of a downtown building.

British Army deserter Peter Burden (Derek Farr), perpetually on the run in postwar England, one day finds himself in a pawnshop. When armed men suddenly burst in and rob the store — assaulting the owner and killing a police officer — Burden is mistakenly pegged as the criminal. Knowing he is innocent yet under suspicion as a deserter, Burden finds refuge at the home of attractive war widow Jean Adams (Joan Hopkins), who offers to help clear his name.

In this film, working girl Ginger Rogers cannot decide which of her three suitors will march her down the aisle. Will it be fast-talking automobile salesman George Murphy, wealthy Alan Marshall, or free-spirited, eternally unemployed Burgess Meredith? She mulls over her choices in a series of hilarious dream sequences.

Four part ( mins each) dubbed version of Victor Hugo’s classic novel about the th century France.

Notorious but Nice is a 1933 Pre-code American sound film drama directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Marian Marsh and Betty Compson. It was produced and distributed by B-Movie studio Chesterfield Motion Pictures.