Author Archive: Retro

Wagon train with seven passengers goes through a series of zany adventures. Color.

Espionage story of an American agent involved in Oriental intrigue with a demonic warlard.

Fast-talking lady reporter teams up with a bumbling cop to solve a series of murders and disappearances on the set of a movie. Based on a story by James Starr. Dir. Alexis Thurn-Taxis

College girl gets involved with a left-wing radical, much to the dismay of her patriotic father, who sends her to Mexico.

Tailspin Tommy must rescue a gun-shy Sky Patrol candidate who has been shot down by gunrunners trying to smuggle their weapons into another country. Based on the Hal Forrest comic strip. Dir. Howard P. Bretherton

Police hunt for a husband and wife team posing as brother and sister, who con wealthy widows then murder them. Dir. George Blair

A young boxer is taken under the wing of a fight promoter and readied for a match with the champ. Based on Hal Fisher’s comic strip. AKA “Palooka”.

An artist meets two sisters who live on a barge.

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.