Author Archive: Retro

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.

After industrial explosives expert William “Lucky” Davis (William Cagney) falls for secretary Marian Leslie (Marion Burns), his blue-collar co-workers, Jimmy Pierson (Robert Armstrong) and Bob Owens (Edgar Kennedy), forge a letter that throws the new lovers into a fit of jealousy and confusion. In the wake of the breakup, Lucky, Pierson and Owens travel to South America to develop a new explosive — and find themselves competing for the heart of local beauty Rosita (Maria Alba).

Starring Sammy Petrillo, Phillip Stahl, Saul Meth, more. Jerry Lewis look-a-like Sammy Petrillo stars as a fake marriage counselor. He earns his degree via a correspondence course and many of his neighbors come to him for sexual advice.

The Kids get involved with gangsters when one helps capture a crook. Dir. Glenn Tryon.

Female odds-maker temporarily and hesitantly takes care of a young orphan, but trouble arises when she tries to adopt him. Dir. Erich von Stroheim

Greedy inventor, framed for fraud by a business partner, gets out of prison and gathers the people he holds responsible for his downfall to an eerie mansion. Produced by Terry Morse. Dir. Terry Morse