Author Archive: Retro

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.

An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.

Man invests in a gold mine which seems to be paying off, and as a result his children begin to put on airs. Dir. Walter Lang.

In this story, which derives its name from a line from Othello, an actor playing Othello nearly kills his wife during Desdemona’s death scene. Unfortunately, the plot is heavy, the dialogue verbose, and the action nonexistent.