Author Archive: Retro

College professor backs a stage show with phony inheritance money, and is framed by the blonde bombshell star. Dir. William Beaudine.

Chicago gangster in London operates a nightclub as a front for his underworld doings, but Scotland Yard’s on to him and send a reporter to go undercover at the club. Dir. Norman Lee

Young British spendthrift inherits a fortune; then clashes with his love over economy and waste. From H.G. Wells’ satirical novel.

Two government agents work to uncover a tricky smuggling team.

A rarely seen filming of Peter Brook’s production of the Shakespeare tradegy.

Part Color and Black & White. Continuation of Part I, Ivan takes on the boyars in a battle for power. His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers.

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi.

A wild fire heightens the suspense of this exciting drama in which a ranger and his wife are pursued by a murderer after they witness a killing.

Two strangers engaged to other people fall in love on a cruise and agree to meet six months later on top of the Empire State Building. Remade by McCarey as “An Affair to Remember”. Written by Leo McCarey. Dir. Leo McCarey