Author Archive: Retro

Joe plays a nerdy book reviewer who shaves off his mustache at his girlfriends request, only to be mistaken for his doppelganger; a mobster who just got out of prison. Dir. Edward Sedgwick

Destitute woman living at the city dump believes her daughter is the rightful heir of a manufacturing tycoon. After the man’s death, mom must prove she was married to the tycoon so her daughter can claim her inheritance. Dir. Richard Thorpe

Dim-witted newspaper editor Joe E. Brown wins a radio contest and invests the money in an invention which uses radio transmissions to control airplanes. Brown encounters smugglers and engages them in a fierce air battle which puts the invention to the test! UNCUT!!

Mine owner forces his employees to work under unsafe conditions and disaster strikes.

Lupino puts up his own money to finance his ward’s newspaper and Gray thinks he’s embezzling money. Dir. Robert North Bradbury.

In this tearjerker, a morally disparate father and son attempt to reconcile their differences. The father is a major construction magnate who has dreamed of his son taking over the lucrative family business. The father’s heart is devastated when the son decides to become a missionary after graduating with an engineering degree and a great rift is formed between them, one that does not heal until a terrible tragedy ensues.

Remarque’s engrossing romantic wartime melodrama. Hopkins, as Ravic, is a German citizen who helped Jewish people escape from the murderous anti-Semitic Fatherland. He spent time in a concentration camp & has a horrible scar as a reminder. He lives without papers in Paris, under a false name, aware always that the minute the gendarmes near him he could be sent away or imprisoned as an illegal alien. He dreams of the day he can revenge himself on the Gestapo officer who sent him away, who tortured his friends & who tortured & raped his only love, Sybil.