Author Archive: Retro

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

Teenage hoodlum goes on a shooting spree, picks up some chicks and takes it on the lam. The whole entourage winds up at a farmhouse, where they hide out and hold a family hostage. Produced by Sam Katzman. Dir. Fred Sears

An impoverished family of acrobats is befriended by a squirrel who helps them attain a fortune. Dir. Irving Pichel.

Rocket Man is pitted against the sinister Dr. Vulcan in this intergalactic battle of good and evil. A feature length condensation of the serial King of the Rocket Men. The rock band leader who calls himself Commander Cody must have loved it too, because he named his band after it.

Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is prevented by existing British law to clear his son’s name. He engages attorney Robert Donat, who successfully petitions for the right to sue the Admiralty and make this august organization prove its charges in court. Public opinion, however, is strongly against Hardwycke and his family: particularly effected is Hardwycke’s daughter Margaret Leighton, whose fiance breaks off their engagement. For dramatic purposes, Margaret finds solace in a romantic relationship with barrister Donat. Terrence Rattigan worked on the cinemadaptation of his own play, which was later restaged on American television. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them–and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.

Female PI wakes up next to the corpse of the nightclub singer she was investigating, and is subsequently accused of murder. Her reporter husband must track down the suspects to prove her innocence, including a mysterious plastic surgeon and a tough gangster. Dir. Dorothy Reid (Dorothy Davenport)

Feature Version Of Radar Men From The Moon Serial