Author Archive: Retro

Story of a prison break in a small Colorado town and the right of terror that followed. Filmed in semidocumentary style.

Horton in dual roles as a sober lawyer by day who becomes the mysterious woman chaser every night at eight o’clock.

Stableboy calms a nervous race horse and rides him to victory. Dir. Joseph Kane.

A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.

A heartwarming story of a teenage boy and his german shepherd. The boy’s father hates the dog until it saves his life.

Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airport-type movie with all the passengers having their own little subplots and fears.

Tailspin Tommy joins sky Patrol. His very first assignement involves him with smugglers.

Shakespeare’s classic farce about the wild, shrewish Kate (Pickford) being pursued and “tamed” by the swaggering, self-confident Petruchio (Fairbanks). Dir. Sam Taylor.