Author Archive: Retro

A spinster visits the big city and is mistaken for a feared murderess.

Handyman is in trouble when portraits of his female clients are sold with nude bodies added to them. Dir. William Nigh.

Police dog defends Shilling from her brutish boss and is banished to die in desert with his pregnant mate.

Biography of composer Franz Schubert, who found inspiration and music in the love of a young lady.

Determinted policewoman goes undercover to exposure a Mexican drug ring and ends up hooking up with an undercover gangster!

A family is bothered by a mischievous ghost that possesses their younger daughter. Dir. Francis Searle.

Two conmen plan to make money from a fake oil well.

An insurance investigator goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a colleague.

In this melodrama, a recently-abandoned wife consoles herself by heading for Reno and falling in love. Her new lover is married to a jealous woman who shoots him when she learns of the affair, leaving the sadder-but-wiser other woman to try to make up with her own wayward spouse.