Author Archive: Retro

In England, Otis Madison learns from the girl that he loves, Isobel Brandon, that the man she loves is his best friend, John Geste, and so there is nothing that Otis can do but stiffen his upper lip and set sail for Morocco and tell John that he is the man that Isobel loves. This is not easy to do as John is confined to a prison for disgraced Legionaires and the people who put him there aren’t overly concerned about who Isobel loves. But the resourceful John promises his love to an Arabian beauty, Zuleika, the ‘Angel of Death’, which gets him out of prison, and then he has to go after the evil Emir who caused him to fall into disgrace. Isobel waits patiently in England.

Neighborhood kid goes to work for the Mafia as a debt collector. Foreshadows elements of “Goodfellas” and “Casino”. Joe Pesci’s first big role. Clever dialog.

In this mystery, a newspaper reporter gets so involved with pursuing two killers, that he forgets his newlywed bride who patiently awaits the return of her groom. Later, the two are kidnapped by the killers. They are saved by a police reporter with gang connections. The killers are also rounded up.

Millionaire (Hubbard) feigns insanity to get out of marrying a gold-digger, but is then committed to an asylum by his vengeful fiancee. He escapes with a certified looney (Menjou) and the two join a carnival, save it from bankrupcy, and proceed to convince Hubbard’s uncle to set up the carnival next to the family mansion. Dir. Hal Roach

Repossession agent must retrieve a radio or lose his job, unaware that gangsters have stashed stolen jewels inside it! Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield

Keith is obsessed with huntdown down a Rebel army deserter who tried to scalp him.

In this film, Lee J. Cobb stars as Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police lieutenant embroiled in a clandestine romance with married socialite Lois Frazer. When Lois kills her husband Howard, the flustered Cullen vows to cover for her. Things get sticky when Cullen is assigned to investigate the case.

After industrial explosives expert William “Lucky” Davis (William Cagney) falls for secretary Marian Leslie (Marion Burns), his blue-collar co-workers, Jimmy Pierson (Robert Armstrong) and Bob Owens (Edgar Kennedy), forge a letter that throws the new lovers into a fit of jealousy and confusion. In the wake of the breakup, Lucky, Pierson and Owens travel to South America to develop a new explosive — and find themselves competing for the heart of local beauty Rosita (Maria Alba).

Starring Sammy Petrillo, Phillip Stahl, Saul Meth, more. Jerry Lewis look-a-like Sammy Petrillo stars as a fake marriage counselor. He earns his degree via a correspondence course and many of his neighbors come to him for sexual advice.