Author Archive: Retro

After seeing manifestations of her dead husband, a grieving widow tries to contact him through a small-time con artist posing as a spiritualist. Written by Crane Wilbur. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus. Phony spiritualist schemes with man who fakes his own death to blackmail an unsuspecting filty rich widow.

A plethora of odd characters highlight this screwball comedy about a Texas couple who meet in New York City and start up a riding academy.

A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically builded to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.

Father looking for his daughter who ran away and changed her name, finds out from a piano player how she got mixed up in an alimony scam.

Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical. AAN Music.

Bentley accepts an editorial position for a magazine entitled “Profile.”

Members of a secret “trust” that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim’s widow enlists Sherlock Holmes’ help. The atmospheric doings involve coded messages, a pretty heiress, sinister villains, and a country mansion with a secret passage. The story bears no relation to the novel of the same name.

A look at various people’s lives as they travel by means of a new high-speed train across the country. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone.

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.