Author Archive: Retro

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his “class” because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice. In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor hotel maid, and in order to keep the boyfriend from finding out just how poor the family is, the mother manages to get a fancy room in the hotel to try to convince him that her daughter is “good enough” for him.

Teenage sleuth sits in on a murder trial and ends up looking for a missing set of fingerprints to clear the victim’s young ward from a murder charge. Based on the novels by Carolyn Keene. Dir. William Clemens

An early masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock.

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.

Crusading California senator, enraged at the illegal methods used by collection agencies, starts an investigation, but is immediately attacked by a conniving lobbyist, who begins a mud-slinging campaign against the senator. Interesting, informative look at the process of politics. Written and Produced by Bernard Girard and Robert E. Lewis. Dir. Bernard Girard

Twenty years after being reported missing in WWI, a man returns to help his young half-brother nab a gang of racketeers. Dir. Stuart Paton.

Sparks is a cantankerous old detective who solves a murder mystery. Dir. William Christy Cabanne

A London policeman (Tom Moore) investigating the source of a light during a World War I air raid discovers a girl (Betty Bronson) with a vivid imagination.

Mysterious drifting lumberjack finds himself in the middle of a war between two lumber companies. Dir. William O’Connor