Author Archive: Retro

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.

Bright young metal company employee is sent to prison for embezzlement, and plots against those who framed him.

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

Hernandez, commander of the garrison in a small village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of robbing orphan Manuel of his inheritance. Luke, suffering from a traumatic past and now an alcoholic, is chosen by revolutionary Pancho to be the pawn of the conspirators.