Author Archive: Retro

Chuck Toedan’s the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin.

Baxter as a man with a mission to overcome his nagging wife and his rival to sell the latest fashion trends.

A fortune is hidden in one of six chairs, and it’s up to the prospective heir to find it. Written by Tom Geraghty and Anthony Kimmins

A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves “The Inseparables.”

Scotland Yard detective goes undercover to catch a terrorist bomber disguised as the meek owner of a movie theatre. Based on the novel “The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Accident prone professional college student and all-around failure must become a success in order to keep a major endowment for the college.

Brothers Terry and Joe Murphy (Dick Purcell, Charles Quigley) are the Heroes in Blue in this Monogram actioner. Actually, Terry, a policeman, is the only one “in blue”; Joe washes out of the police training program early on, opting for a dangerous association with a band of gangsters. Poor old Pop Murphy (Frank Sheridan), an ex-cop turned night watchman, tries to extricate Joe from his dilemma, with disastrous results. It’s up to Terry to round up the crooks during the film’s pulse-pounding racetrack finale. It’s best to ignore some of the plot absurdities in Heroes in Blue, including a murder that occurs in full view of a crowd, but reaps only a single solitary eyewitness.

Romantic love story with an all-bird cast about the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Chirpendale. Created by Ken Murray. Color. Dir. Dean Riesner. Acadamy Award Winner.

An unabashed gold-digger shows the ropes to her two naive showgirl friends. Dir. Lowell Sherman.