Author Archive: Retro

Originally three TV episodes linked by narration to form a feature. The boys join the US Embassy in reuniting a ballerina with the missing journalist she’s in love with. Next it’s to Paris where they get mixed up with smugglers, and finally, Lum and Abner break the bank at Monte Carlo.

A young couple turn themselves in after hiding money from a bank robbery, and refuse to say where they hid the cash, which leads to one problem after another. Dir. James Cruz.

Bentley and Summerfield team up as reporter and his assistant to investigate a series of murders.

Vigilante hero Judex (Channing Pollack) goes after Favraux (Michel Vitold), a crooked banker who defrauded scores of unwitting lenders. To make him pay for his crime, Judex slips the swindler a potion at the engagement party of his daughter Jacqueline (Édith Scob). Favraux appears to drop dead; one grave-digging expedition later, Judex has revived the big shot to administer justice! But the avenger will still have to keep one eye on Favraux’s scheming governess, Diana Monti (Francine Bergé).

Embezzler’s young daughter survives a plane crash in Africa, befriending a gorilla who protects her. Years later, however, treasure hunters appear searching for the embezzler’s loot. Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield

Prank playing college student gets mixed up with an heiress who is being guarded from a group of kidnappers.

Navajo was one of a group of intelligent “chamber” westerns turned out by Lippert productions in the 1950s. Technically, it’s not a western at all, but what would later be termed a “docudrama.” Shot on location at a Navajo Indian Reservation, the film features nonprofessional Native Americans in the major roles. Francis Kee Teller plays Son of the Hunter, a young Navajo boy who is separated from his family so that he may be given his government-dictated mandatory education. Disdaining the “white” world, Teller runs from his instructors. The two tenderfeet find themselves in a perilous situation, from which the savvy Teller must rescue them. One of the teachers is played by Hall Bartlett, the producer of Navajo (and, parenthetically, the then-husband of actress Rhonda Fleming).

Stoker in a Welsh coal town risks his life to save the mine after a gas leak.