Author Archive: Retro

This low-budget action saga concerns Rafe Stoker, a screen idol turned film director so desperate to finish making his new opus that he enlists the financial support of the mafia. In the process, Rafe makes a series of high-flown promises to the lending thugs, including a completed film and payback out of the profits within four weeks. Unfortunately, though, the movie takes longer than anticipated, and Rafe winds up at the mercy of a cadre of redneck bikers intent on sabotaging the film for Rafe’s collateral. Soon, Rafe has to both fight to finish the picture, and fend off such elements as ruthless cops and evil snipers.

Owner of a riverboat tries to keep her daughter from following in her footsteps. Dir. Bob Hill.

An espionage ring is uncovered by a newspaper reporter.

Woman and her lover conspire to murder her rich husband, but he survives, assumes another name and finds a humble new life with a good woman, until his past catches up to him. Produced by Leo C. Popkin. Dir. Arthur Lubin

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.