Author Archive: Retro

In this story, which derives its name from a line from Othello, an actor playing Othello nearly kills his wife during Desdemona’s death scene. Unfortunately, the plot is heavy, the dialogue verbose, and the action nonexistent.

When a circus carousel operator learns he is the illegitimate son of a wealthy baron, he moves in with his father and sets his sights on becoming an aristocrat. Attracted to the Baron’s beautiful but distant young ward, he discovers that overcoming his lowly background is a seeminly insurmountable task in the sophisticated world of the wealthy.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Nurse Anne Graham is controversially – but rightly – acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Changing her name she gets a position nursing wheelchair-bound Edward Bentley, little suspecting that his wife and the butler are lovers setting Anne up so that when Bentley is found dead it looks like a repeat of the earlier case.

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Every crook in town is looking for some missing loot, and they all end up at an inn run by Wyman. Joe E. Brown is a soda jerk who must somehow outwit the mobsters. Dir. Kurt Neumann

A man struggling with alcoholism turns to a reverend for help