Author Archive: Retro

A couple’s marital problems increase when the wife becomes friends with a piano player. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis.

Truly unique early industrial film from the early 50’s, sponsored by Westinghouse in which an appliance salesman having trouble with sales falls asleep in a department store and all the mannequins come to life. Things really get weird when the appliances start talking to him with the voices of Lucille Ball, James Mason, Jerry Colonna, Chief Iron Eyes, Andy Devine and many more. You want the unusual? This is it!

Fourth in the “Scattergood Baines” series finds Scattergood stepping in to help a neighbor. Dir. William Christy Cabanne.

The Crazy Gang get jobs at a Hollywood studio and are mistaken for important movie executives. Written by Val Guest and Marriott Edgar. Dir. Herbert Wilcox.

Shell-shocked canine war vet returns to civillian life and must elude dognappers, the gas chamber and a firing squad.

War comedy about two soldiers who get themselves into a series of bungling escapades, trying to save a village from Bolshevik attack. Dir. Hamilton MacFadden.

Cryano, master of sword and poetry is doomed to live with a face of ugliness. He uses the voice of his rival to deliver his message of love to the woman he admires. Famous story of the poetic cavalier who, because of a substantial nasal endowment, finds himself too ugly to be loved. Dir. Michael Gordon. Academy award for Ferrer’s performance.

Part of a series of movies, this is another tale of the wicked Dr. Mabuse whose plans to dominate the world this time involve sending his drones to attack a nuclear power plant. Barker, the FBI man, and Frobe, the inspector, are teamed up to keep him from succeeding.

Circumstantial evidence suggests that a neurotic detective (Lawrence Tierney) murdered a film star while he was drunk.