Author Archive: Retro

Peter Haddon plays Dorothy L. Sayers’ amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey in the Anglo-American The Silent Passenger. A scurrilous blackmailer is murdered by one of his victims, but it is innocent John Loder who is suspected of the crime. Making the casual acquaintance of Loder, Lord Peter Wimsey sets about to prove his new friend’s innocence. It all takes place on a train trip from London to the English Channel, with Loder acting as bait to flush out the real killer. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote the original story for Silent Passenger directly for the screen.

Father looking for his daughter who ran away and changed her name, finds out from a piano player how she got mixed up in an alimony scam.

Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical. AAN Music.

This wonderful comedy-western, produced by Stan Laurel for Hal Roach, features more laughs and fun than 10 modern comedies. The Boys’ travel out west to deliver a gold mine deed to the daughter of an old prospector pal, only to be tricked by a scheming James Finlayson into giving the deed to the wrong girl. Don’t miss this all-time classic with The Boys’ in one of their very best features. Dir. Stan Laurel

Bentley accepts an editorial position for a magazine entitled “Profile.”

Members of a secret “trust” that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim’s widow enlists Sherlock Holmes’ help. The atmospheric doings involve coded messages, a pretty heiress, sinister villains, and a country mansion with a secret passage. The story bears no relation to the novel of the same name.

A look at various people’s lives as they travel by means of a new high-speed train across the country. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone.

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.