Author Archive: Retro

Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) they invariably lose. One day they hit upon a scheme to steal one of the track’s betting machines, so that they’d be able to print winning tickets and recoup the money they’ve lost over the years. However, things don’t go exactly as planned.

The Gang’s first film appearance has them as sweepers for a circus.

The boss’ daughter falls for steelworking McCrea when he saves two people in a factory accident. She plans to make him a society husband within a month.

Policeman poses as a mysterious blackmailer and confronts the wife and mistress of a murdered doctor to find out which one of them did it. Dir. Arthur Hoerl

A former jockey discovers racketeers trying to rig the outcome of a horse race.

British radio reporter solves a murder and finds the missing theft money in an attempt to get news for his radio program.

After losing his nerve in the war, a Navy vet goes back to running a boat at the mouth of the Mississippi, but his romance and reputation are challenged by his rival, an evil trapper. Lots of action-packed fights in alligator-filled swamps. Weissmuller’s only starring role outside of the “Tarzan” and “Jungle Jim” series. Produced by William C. Thomas and William H. Pine. Dir. William H. Pine

This drama is adapted from Chekhov’s famous play and chronicles the dreary lives of a late Russian colonel’s three daughters as they struggle to survive during the early 1900s.

Female PI wakes up next to the corpse of the nightclub singer she was investigating, and is subsequently accused of murder. Her reporter husband must track down the suspects to prove her innocence, including a mysterious plastic surgeon and a tough gangster. Dir. Dorothy Reid (Dorothy Davenport)