Author Archive: Retro

A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne’er-do-well.

An edited version of the 1940 Republic serial “Mysterious Doctor Satan”, which was released to TV in a syndication package in 1966. Doctor Satan’s Robot is a 1966 made for television film condensed from the original 1940 Mysterious Doctor Satan film serial named after its chief villain. Master criminal Doctor Satan has a nemesis, a masked mystery man, the “Copperhead”, whose secret identity is Bob Wayne

Extremely reclusive artist takes the place of his late valet and enjoys the world more as a “servant”. Produced by Arthur Hopkins. Dir. Sam Newfield.

Federal agent Alan Fields, undercover as Jonathan Pinkerton, an employee of Lloyds of London, is investigating a bank robbery where one of the three thieves has killed the other two to take possession of all the money.

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one

A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist’s office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can’t remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents’ murder and the pedophiles “suicide” may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn’t the only one whose life is in danger.

A man claims innocence after being accused of murdering a bookie. His wife and brother-in-law investigate, uncovering inconsistencies as they search for the real culprit.