Author Archive: Retro

The gang pretends to be Leo Gorcey’s siblings in order to impress a rich uncle from Texas. Features the two-fisted boys from Dead End in the comedy/drama series. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabe Dell and Billy Benedict.

One of the early color near-nudie films and was re-shown often by, mostly, drive-in theatre owners in need of a quick cash fix. They would hang out the “Adults Only” sign, thereby ensuring that every high school and junior high boy (and more than a few dads) within an hour’s drive would storm the gate, and turn on the pop corn machine and then hot-foot it to the night-deposit at the bank. “Not Tonight, Henry” (the actual title and not an alternate title as some seem to think) was a large step up in quality for director W. Merle Connell in that it was in color and also not just a static-camera filming of a burlesque show inside of one of L. A.’s smoky, grind house burlesques. The girls were still out of burlesque, as were Hank Henry and Little Jack Little: Hank Henry is more than a little frustrated at the “lack of attention” [...]

Sixty-year-old, retired fireman joins with an insurance investigator to search for an arsonist. Dir. William West.

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Young woman struggles to keep the financially troubled circus that her and her late husband started together, but her troubles are compounded when her sister dies, leaving her to take care of her young neice. Dir. Karl Brown.

Railroad agent tries to solve the robbery of a $100,000 payroll, and is joined in his quest by the attractive daughter of the engineer who was killed during the heist. Produced by William H. Pine & William C. Thomas. Dir. William C. Thomas

An undertaker and his two friends, who are restaurant owners, drum up business by going out on the town and killing people; the restaurant owners use parts of the bodies for their menu, and the undertaker gets paid by the families to bury the remainder. Their racket goes awry when 2 detectives suspect that something isn’t quite kosher.

Depiction of ruthless, power-mad corporate executives as seen by a naive newcomer. Written by Rod Serling.

The Crazy gang invade Nazi Germany !! They accidentally pilot a balloon over enemy territory.