Author Archive: Retro

Erudite novelist Jack Pathurst (Paul Lukas) happens to be a passenger of the sailing ship Elsinore when a mutiny breaks out. The first casualty is Captain Weston (Conway Dixon), followed by the first mate. With practically no one else of intelligence left standing, Pathurst assumes command of the vessel and persuades the mutineers to throw down their arms.

Wife assumes husband Redgrave’s Parliament member seat after he is reportedly killed.

Farr is mistakenly chosen as the winner of a large sweepstakes, and when the real winner shows up, they agree to become partners.

Ames and Winters are sent to the Panama Canal to stop Chinese spies.

o boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O’Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. The reward for the person who finds the legendary gentleman burglar is set to $10,000.

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his “class” because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice. In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor hotel maid, and in order to keep the boyfriend from finding out just how poor the family is, the mother manages to get a fancy room in the hotel to try to convince him that her daughter is “good enough” for him.

Teenage sleuth sits in on a murder trial and ends up looking for a missing set of fingerprints to clear the victim’s young ward from a murder charge. Based on the novels by Carolyn Keene. Dir. William Clemens

An early masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock.

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.