Author Archive: Retro

Wife assumes husband Redgrave’s Parliament member seat after he is reportedly killed.

Farr is mistakenly chosen as the winner of a large sweepstakes, and when the real winner shows up, they agree to become partners.

Ames and Winters are sent to the Panama Canal to stop Chinese spies.

o boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O’Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. The reward for the person who finds the legendary gentleman burglar is set to $10,000.

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his “class” because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice. In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor hotel maid, and in order to keep the boyfriend from finding out just how poor the family is, the mother manages to get a fancy room in the hotel to try to convince him that her daughter is “good enough” for him.

Teenage sleuth sits in on a murder trial and ends up looking for a missing set of fingerprints to clear the victim’s young ward from a murder charge. Based on the novels by Carolyn Keene. Dir. William Clemens

An early masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock.

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.

Crusading California senator, enraged at the illegal methods used by collection agencies, starts an investigation, but is immediately attacked by a conniving lobbyist, who begins a mud-slinging campaign against the senator. Interesting, informative look at the process of politics. Written and Produced by Bernard Girard and Robert E. Lewis. Dir. Bernard Girard