Author Archive: Retro

Con-men persuade a family to invest their life-savings in a phoney movie project and takes them for every penny. Dir. Melville Brown.

In this suspenser, set upon the campus of a women’s college, a strangler has come to call. Death ensues. The music instructor suspects that the killer is a member of the college.

Submarine officers Dorgan and Mason battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen. She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty.

After losing his legs in a mill accident and his wife and company to a competitor, a man organizes beggars into a successful corporation. Dir. Phil Rosen.

This ’70s eco-thriller involves the rapidly shrinking amount of farmland in the world, due to over-industrialization. Several groups become desperate to control food, and a vicious fight breaks out between rural areas (which control grain supplies) and urban centers (which contain most of the world’s population). ~ John Bush, Rovi

A movie studio is shrouded in mystery when its top star is murdered on the set, and everyone is a suspect. Bela Lugosi plays a temperamental actor who’s the most likely suspect, alongside Dracula co-stars Edward Van Sloan, David Manners.

A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians, make multi-million deals and order murders , until the vicious pattern finally catches up to him.

In emotional turmoil following the death of his wife, Hal Painter (Kevin Dobson) relinquishes custody of his son, Mark (Justin Dana), to his in-laws, Dwight (James Whitmore) and Margaret Hamilton (Peggy McCay). Eventually, Hal gets his life back on track and wants to regain custody of his son in hopes of starting fresh in California with his new girlfriend. But Dwight and Margaret have different plans for young Mark and are willing to take Hal to court to get their way.

Hilarious crime yarn about two bumbling detectives on the trail of a millionaire who has stolen plans.