Author Archive: Retro

Scotland Yard detective goes undercover to catch a terrorist bomber disguised as the meek owner of a movie theatre. Based on the novel “The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Accident prone professional college student and all-around failure must become a success in order to keep a major endowment for the college.

Brothers Terry and Joe Murphy (Dick Purcell, Charles Quigley) are the Heroes in Blue in this Monogram actioner. Actually, Terry, a policeman, is the only one “in blue”; Joe washes out of the police training program early on, opting for a dangerous association with a band of gangsters. Poor old Pop Murphy (Frank Sheridan), an ex-cop turned night watchman, tries to extricate Joe from his dilemma, with disastrous results. It’s up to Terry to round up the crooks during the film’s pulse-pounding racetrack finale. It’s best to ignore some of the plot absurdities in Heroes in Blue, including a murder that occurs in full view of a crowd, but reaps only a single solitary eyewitness.

Romantic love story with an all-bird cast about the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Chirpendale. Created by Ken Murray. Color. Dir. Dean Riesner. Acadamy Award Winner.

An unabashed gold-digger shows the ropes to her two naive showgirl friends. Dir. Lowell Sherman.

A British versus an Italian in a race to scale a treacherous mountain.

Nazi commandos hijack the train carrying British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and only one man can save them in this fast-paced WWII thriller.

Four early shorts with Ben Blue Billy Gilbert

In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry–on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked.