Author Archive: Retro

French thriller about a murder plot in a boarding school.

Wealthy entrepreneur living a life of leisure decides its time for a change and finds himself involved in a scandal. Dir. Charles Lamont.

Highlights two love stories: a working-class girl’s romance, and the affair of a beautiful society debutante.

Joan Crawford. A puritanical minister attempts to reclaim a “lost woman” on the isle of Pago Pago. Based on play by Somerset Maugham.

Documentary about famous western movie ranch.

Conte, a Mexican boxer, uses his winnings to buy arms in an effort to overthrow the dictator who murdered his family.

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing, the “back-room boy” investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.

A man takes on the identity of his partner to bring the killers of his partner’s father to justice. Dir. William Christy Cabanne.

The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of “In Town Tonight”. Flotsam and Jetsom open with a “topical number”. Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.