Author Archive: Retro

In this Canadian comedy, a husband sleeps with his ex-wife on a weekly basis. The busy woman also has time to get involved with an aspiring politician whose career is on the rise. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

EastSide boxing champion (Leo Gorcey) has been challenged to fight the West Side champ but is kidnapped before the match. Leo’s friend (Bobby Jordan) takes his place and wins the fight only to have Leo think that Bobby was responsible for his kidnapping. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

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.