Author Archive: Retro

College graduate takes over the publishing of his mother’s newspaper in order to modernize it, but ends up running it to the brink of bankruptcy.

Man is jeered for thinking he is Jesus Christ, but the ridicule ceases when he begins performing miracles. English subtitles.

While travelling on an ocean liner, newspaper reporter Boyd investigates the murder of a tycoon. Dir. Sam Newfield

American Frank Chandler assumes the name Chandu and uses his mystical powers to stop a cult. Feature version of the Serial. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Ray Taylor

A 1958 re-broadcast of the 1949 television version of Dickens’s story, this time telecast as an episode of “Family Theatre”.

While mixing chemicals in the kitchen, Dagwood inadvertently creates non-flammable paint, but two rival contractors steal the stuff before he can give it to his boss. Dir. Edward Bernds.

Tough reporter discovers that the former district attorney was the victim of a murder plot, and must find the bad guy before the present district attorney gets the same treatment. Dir. William Christy Cabanne.

In this drama, a young woman gives up college and marries her boyfriend, a Marine. Unfortunately, he is killed in Vietnam.

Pilot flying small plane through a desert storm is forced to land in the Syrian desert with his passengers. They are held hostage at a sheik’s camp in an attempt to force the British to release three Nazi prisoners. Based on the play “The Green Goddess” by William Archer. Dir. David Ross Lederman