Author Archive: Retro

Amnesiac falls under the wing of a preacher and becomes a successful evangelist, but falls into a deadly web of blackmail and murder when his greedy girlfriend comes back into his life. Produced by Irvin Berwick.

Orientals smuggled into U.S. by movie producer until caught by an investigator working as an extra.

Detective Bentley hunts down a killer who is putting an end to a nerve doctor’s wealthy patients.

The story of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short in 1959 when he lost the use of his legs in an auto accident

Party loving fashion editor quits her stressful job and decides to settle down with a good man, but when she goes to a nightclub for one last fling, she ends up accused of a murder. Produced by Jack Chertok. Dir. Robert Stevenson

In this tearjerker, a morally disparate father and son attempt to reconcile their differences. The father is a major construction magnate who has dreamed of his son taking over the lucrative family business. The father’s heart is devastated when the son decides to become a missionary after graduating with an engineering degree and a great rift is formed between them, one that does not heal until a terrible tragedy ensues.

Toni le Braun is a Opera Singer hopeful who gets a letter from Budapest saying she has a job singing. Unfortunately, she soon learns that the local in which she is singing is not an opera house but a cabaret. When she refuses the advances of one of the rich patrons of the cabaret, and the wardrobe mistress helps her escape, they are both fired. What Toni does not know is that the wardrobe mistress is a baroness, whose husband was killed in the great war. Rather than loose her old life, she works all year and when she gets her husbands yearly cheque (like pension i think) she lives in Monte Carlo the way she did before the war, until her money runs out, and then she returns to Budapest. Toni is now the Baroness’ ward, and two men (uncle and nephew) fall in love with her. Toni becomes engaged to the young Richard. [...]

Police chief invites a criminologist to give a lecture at the precinct, but when the lights go out, strange murders start to occur. Produced by Bernard B. Ray & Harry Webb. Dir. Bernard B. Ray

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter’s manager decides to build up the milkman’s reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.