Author Archive: Retro

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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.

  • January 29, 2021
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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.

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