Author Archive: Retro

An innocent man is sent to jail, and his sister must go undercover in a women’s prison an attempt to clear her brother of the charge. Dir. Phil Rosen.

Eleanor Parker stars in this fact-based biography of Marjorie Lawrence, a famed opera singer who discovers she has polio. After falling in love with her physician, Dr. Thomas King, they marry, and despite her ailment, Lawrence battles to appear one final time at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

The Mexican comedy Necesito Dinero stars Pedro Infante as a simple mechanic who attempts to win over the girl of his dreams by becoming a professional boxer.

Documentary-like story of the Communist’s trial of famed Cardinal Joseph Mindzenty. Dir. John Brahm.

An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease, but a ferocious Indian tribe.

On a transcontinental flight from New York City to Los Angeles, Joan Lawson, the flight hostess, attracts the attention of a move producer, Dave Miller, and he tries to persuade her to sign a movie contract.

The gang rescues a wealthy man from a mugging, and tries to put his son on the straight and narrow. Features the two-fisted boys from Dead End in the comedy/drama series. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabe Dell and Billy Benedict.

Writer of pulp detective novels must solve a real murder-mystery when a millionaire is stabbed to death at a costume party. Based on the novel “The Murder of Stephen Kester” by Harriet Ashbrook. Dir. Richard Thorpe