Author Archive: Retro

When a Chicago police reporter solves a gangland murder, he is kidnapped by the gangsters in order to keep him from testifying. Dir. Jean Yarbrough

Montgomery as a Canadian officer behind enemy lines having an tryst with a Parisian dancer.

Successful stage play is transferred to the screen as two enemies go to any lengths to make sure that the marriage of their children never takes place. Watch for Audrey Hepburn, appearing here in her first feature.

A child at boarding school sees his teacher commit murder. The teacher knows someone saw but not which student.

Severine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them, but doesn’t tell the police, because he’s in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her…

A bogus mindreader inexplicably gains the ability to see into the future… at what cost?

Chuck Toedan’s the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin.

Baxter as a man with a mission to overcome his nagging wife and his rival to sell the latest fashion trends.

A fortune is hidden in one of six chairs, and it’s up to the prospective heir to find it. Written by Tom Geraghty and Anthony Kimmins