Author Archive: Retro

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon. High brow.

College crew team enlists the help of a truck driver when their best oarsman is drafted. Dir. Wallace Fox.

District Attorney is killed by a poisoned dart after announcing his intentions to prosecute thirteen racketeers before his re-election. Dir. William Nigh

TV star Brett Halsey is the lead in The Girl in Lover’s Lane. While drifting through a small town, Bix (Halsey) becomes involved with local tease Carrie (Joyce Meadows). Shortly afterward, Carrie is murdered, and Bix is held responsible. The actual killer is feeble-minded Jesse (Jack Elam), but the villagers aren’t as quick on the uptake as the movie audience. Only the intervention of runaway youngster Danny (Lowell Brown) saves Bix from a lynch mob. Girl in Lover’s Lane was directed by another TV habitue, Charles R. Rondeau.

A woman seeks revenge on her former lover, who owns a skydiving business.

Newspaperman neglects his new bride in favor of getting the scoop on a suicide he suspects is a murder. His wife decides to help out, and so do his gangster pals, who must come to the rescue when the newlyweds are kidnapped by murderers. Dir. Phil Rosen

Unemployed reporter is hired by a failing newspaper and must save the paper from libel suits as well as from the mob.

Police investigate murders on board an ocean liner which can be controlled from ashore using a radio device. From the novel “The Ghost of John Holling” by Edgar Wallace. Dir. William Nigh

During WWII an American and her British husband are captured in the far east and thrown into a Japanese concentration camp.