Author Archive: Retro

The boss’ daughter falls for steelworking McCrea when he saves two people in a factory accident. She plans to make him a society husband within a month.

Policeman poses as a mysterious blackmailer and confronts the wife and mistress of a murdered doctor to find out which one of them did it. Dir. Arthur Hoerl

A former jockey discovers racketeers trying to rig the outcome of a horse race.

British radio reporter solves a murder and finds the missing theft money in an attempt to get news for his radio program.

After losing his nerve in the war, a Navy vet goes back to running a boat at the mouth of the Mississippi, but his romance and reputation are challenged by his rival, an evil trapper. Lots of action-packed fights in alligator-filled swamps. Weissmuller’s only starring role outside of the “Tarzan” and “Jungle Jim” series. Produced by William C. Thomas and William H. Pine. Dir. William H. Pine

This drama is adapted from Chekhov’s famous play and chronicles the dreary lives of a late Russian colonel’s three daughters as they struggle to survive during the early 1900s.

Side show mermaid, believing she is descendant of the Sea People who are compelled to kill when moon is full, falls in love with young sailor…chooses death rather than destruction.

A high school boy, out to find his father’s killer, joins up with a gang of juvenile delinquents.

Clay Douglas an American, comes to England, to find out the truth behind his brothers death during a commando operation in occupied France. After tracking down the surviving members of the raid, he confronts the killer, only to be told the truth about what really happened.