Author Archive: Retro

Picking up where Victoria the Great (1937) left off, this sequel to the 1937 film has Anna Neagle return to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British monarch’s reign. This film offers a stellar chronicle of Victoria’s relationship with Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) as well as the political and military upheavals that characterized her time as Queen.

The Kids break out of reform school to clear an innocent man of a murder charge.

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his dayslooking for just “one more fix”. Win apart is its solid writing and steady, well-thought outperformances.

Dr. Christian plays matchmaker to a pair of bickering parents whose quarrels are disturbing a young violin prodigy.

WWI tale of espionage in which the Germans use a female agent to infiltrate an important British officer’s house. Dir. Hamilton MacFadden.

A tale of an adopted girl and her convict father.

Young boy is determined to follow in his father’s tracks as a race car driver, even though it caused his dad’s death. Dir. Felix Feist.

A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father’s business. A comedy with social commentary.

Female criminal helps detective track down jewel thieves, who have converged on a vacant house…number 17. Written by Alfred Hitchcock, Produced by Leon M. Lion. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock