Author Archive: Retro

While charting unexplored African territories an adventurer discovers a white jungle princess living as a goddess among the natives. Dir. S.K. Seeley (Steve Sekeley)

Intriguing British melodrama At the Villa Rose was released in the U.S. by Monogram and given the more prosaic title House of Mystery. A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren’t clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist (Ruth Maitland). Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for the murder. Inspector Hanaud (Kenneth Kent) is called in on the case, meticulously piecing the puzzle together and determining the identities of the real culprits. House of Mystery was based on a story by A.E.W. Mason, better known for such British-empire tomes as The Four Feathers.

A woman takes a job in a nursery only to find the child she had given up earlier in life. Dir. Charles Lamont.

Wayward kids facing hard time for a sporting goods store robbery, fall under the wing of a crusading reporter, who turns their life around.

A Soviet spy (Lola Lane) tricks the Gestapo in Paris because she looks like a Nazi spy.

Court-martialed captain pursues a murderous deserter.

American Army captain in early 19th-century Spanish-ruled Florida, must save his brother from a villainous Spaniard’s firing squad while wooing the bad guy’s daughter. Dir. Ray Taylor

Color. Based on the hit Broadway revue the show revolves around a broadway show about to be closed down.