Author Archive: Retro

Otis Block is found dead in the boarding house where he lived. Although one of his fellow boarders is undoubtedly responsible, their collectively eccentric personalities make the solution of the crime a difficult problem.

Beautiful orphan girl goes to stay with her uncle at a creepy hotel, not realizing that her uncle is involved with cut-throats and smugglers. Based on the book by Daphne Du Maurier. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

US-Navy pilot Lt. Richard Tabor crash-lands on a south Pacific isle called Love Island in English. Richard befriends the Balinese beauty Sarna. The bad and jealous Jaraka doesn’t like their friendship, so he has Sarna’s father Aryuna arrested on a vague charge. Jaraka tells Aryuna that he only will be released when his daughter marries him.

In this Canadian comedy, a husband sleeps with his ex-wife on a weekly basis. The busy woman also has time to get involved with an aspiring politician whose career is on the rise. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

EastSide boxing champion (Leo Gorcey) has been challenged to fight the West Side champ but is kidnapped before the match. Leo’s friend (Bobby Jordan) takes his place and wins the fight only to have Leo think that Bobby was responsible for his kidnapping. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

A couple’s marital problems increase when the wife becomes friends with a piano player. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis.

Truly unique early industrial film from the early 50’s, sponsored by Westinghouse in which an appliance salesman having trouble with sales falls asleep in a department store and all the mannequins come to life. Things really get weird when the appliances start talking to him with the voices of Lucille Ball, James Mason, Jerry Colonna, Chief Iron Eyes, Andy Devine and many more. You want the unusual? This is it!

Fourth in the “Scattergood Baines” series finds Scattergood stepping in to help a neighbor. Dir. William Christy Cabanne.