Author Archive: Retro

Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices.

A gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son. First appearance of Marin’s famous character Coffin Joe. Coffin Joe is a funeral agent who terrorizes a small town. He mocks people’s beliefs and is obsessed with the idea of generating the perfect son. He pursues his goal endlessly and cruelly.

Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by “famous stamp collector” and millionaire.

Evil squire lusts after virginal Maria Marten, and when she refuses his advances, he kills her and hides her body in the red barn of the title. Dir. Milton Rosmer

Dangerous killer known as “The Tiger” fronts a charity which supposedly helps ex-convicts, but in reality, steers them toward more criminal activities. Produced by George King. Dir. George King

Nasty squire sends an innocent man to a squallid prison so he can get the other’s girl. Dir. David MacDonald

The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of “In Town Tonight”. Flotsam and Jetsom open with a “topical number”. Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.

A madman murders Sir Percival Glyde. Taking on his victim’s identity, the man returns to the Glyde ancestral home, Blackwater Park, in hopes of claiming a large inheritance. However, the estate is heavily in debt. Still hungry for wealth, the false “Glyde” takes advantage of a long-standing betrothal promise to marry young and beautiful heiress Laurie Fairlie. Having his true identity revealed could ruin everything, but this lascivious and diabolical “Glyde” is more than willing to kill anyone who stands in his way… This story is loosely based on Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.