Author Archive: Retro

British comedy drama based on H.G. Wells novel.

In order to serve a summons on a reclusive millionaire, an Assistant District Attorney travels incognito on a yacht which runs across the path of callous gunrunners. Dir. Ewing Scott.

Schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying young, underage girls

A doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.

A farmer wins a sheep dog competition and saves his land which was in threat of being taken

Cocteau’s first film detailing the surrealistic events following the fall of a chimney. Narrated by Jean Cocteau. English subtitles. Dir. Jean Cocteau.

Short biopic about composer Franz Schubert.

A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.

When his father is killed by racketeers, a newspaper publisher uses the paper to run a crooked District Attorney out of town. Dir. Howard P. Bretherton