Author Archive: Retro

Outspoken German pastor is thrown into a concentration camp when he takes a public stand against Nazi philosophies. Based on a true story. Dir. Roy Boulting

Cappy Ricks intentionally shipwrecks his family on a south sea island to remind them of what is really important in life.

In this made-for-TV movie, Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff Bridges. At the boy’s suggestion, Betz and Miles pack their family — including grandma — into a 1928 Greyhound bus and hit the road, in search of America.

After seeing manifestations of her dead husband, a grieving widow tries to contact him through a small-time con artist posing as a spiritualist. Written by Crane Wilbur. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus. Phony spiritualist schemes with man who fakes his own death to blackmail an unsuspecting filty rich widow.

A plethora of odd characters highlight this screwball comedy about a Texas couple who meet in New York City and start up a riding academy.

A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically builded to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.

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.