Author Archive: Retro

Songwriter finds sudden success and abandons his current life for high society.

Secret service agent falls in love while on assignment in Mississippi, but must clear his lover’s name when she is arrested for the murder of a numbers racketeer.

Showtime at the Apollo

A rural girl comes to the big city to pursue a singing career, and is befriended by paternal cab drivers and down-and-out show troupers, and preyed upon by an adulterous pimp.

Art Gilmore narrates an assemblage of jazz greats

A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

Moore plays a producer who dons women’s clothing to ensure that the show will go on! Can you picture Kingfish in drag??? Don’t miss it!

Rise and fall of a railroad poerter whose exploits take him from a life sentence on a chain gang to self-declared Emperor of Haiti.

In this made-for-television drama, a doctor feverishly works to save a city from a potentially devastating epidemic.