Author Archive: Retro

Ruth Ashley (Betty Compson) and oily Gregory Stone (Wheeler Oakman) operate the Hollywood Escort Bureau. Ruth was a former escort girl but has worked up way up through the ranks and is now a partner in the business. Ruth’s earnings have provided the funds to send her beautiful daughter, June (Margaret Marquis), to the most exclusive schools. June is not aware they her ever-loving mother is engaged in the nefarious business of supplying call-girls to lonely men. June comes home and announces she is engaged to marry Drake Hamilton (Robert Kellard), who is a special investigator for the district attorney. Drake is a good investigator and soon learns that his mother-in-law to be is running an escort bureau. He makes her promise to give up the business and promises not to tell June. But Gregory fears Drake will put an end to his operation. Drake, working undercover, calls the bureau for a date to be [...]

Lynda Carter plays a caring social worker that is suddenly drawn into a horrid reality of underworld mayhem. Babies are bought from troubled teenagers and then are placed into the hands of unstable parents for a fee of $ 30,000. Can you believe it. The sadest part of all is that this has really happened. Watch this one if you might see it on tv again. While Lynda Carter investigates the businessman believed to be responsible, she puts her own life in danger from the band of villians working for him. She is threatened, manipulated and puts her job in jeopardy desperately trying to crack the operation wide open. Of course, the best reason of all to watch this is that the beautiful Lynda Carter stars in it!!!

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.