Author Archive: Retro

Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airport-type movie with all the passengers having their own little subplots and fears.

Tailspin Tommy joins sky Patrol. His very first assignement involves him with smugglers.

Shakespeare’s classic farce about the wild, shrewish Kate (Pickford) being pursued and “tamed” by the swaggering, self-confident Petruchio (Fairbanks). Dir. Sam Taylor.

happy, normal couple are forced into a life on the limb when she’s unjustly accused and convicted of murdering her boss. Knowing by whom his wife has been framed, he breaks her out of jail. Now they’re on the run from the law and a hired hitman, while pursuing the real killer.

In this third installment of MGM’s “Dr. Kildare” series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his supervisor/mentor Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) nearly collapses from overwork. Gillespie is seeking a permanent cure for pneumonia, and must ask Kildare for assistance when the task proves beyond his physical ability. The older doctor eventually does collapse, and the diagnosis is cancer. Gillespie recovers, while Kildare finds his hands full in juggling both the pneumonia cure and the case of a woman (Helen Gilbert) suffering from psychosomatic blindness. But what’s the “secret” of Dr. Kildare? Well…that’s a secret (until you see the film).

Meek salesman finds himself in trouble when he’s mistakenly thought to have bumped off a gangster.

Sensationalist public relations reporter takes advantage of the situation of a young girl falsely said to be a victim of poisoning. A funny, cynical farce.

A gang of teenage girls, looking for kicks and ignoring their probation officers’ warnings, embark on a crime spree of robberies and burglaries.