Author Archive: Retro

Two CIA agents – a kung fu master and a suave womanizer – track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong.

Trained warrior tries to avenge her father’s murder.

Tough cop Bruce Li arrives back in town in time to investigate a series of odd murders.

This film warns girls of the dangers they face from the opposite sex: rape, pregnancy, “social diseases” and murder.

Starring Monogram’s low-budget answer to Gene Autry, the rather colorless Jimmy Wakely, this minor music Western was actually disapproved for export on the grounds that it depicted what the censorship boards deemed “general lawlessness.” The “lawlessness” depicted centers around Denny (Dennis Moore), impersonating a federal agent after being falsely accused of killing Bruce Carter (Hugh Prosser), a guest at the Mesa Inn. As it turns out, the dead man isn’t what he claimed to be, either, but with the help of Jimmy Wakely, grizzled sidekick Lasses (Lee “Lasses” White), and girl agent Dale Harding (Cay Forrester), Denny clears up the general confusion within the allotted 56 minutes or so. While Moore attempts to clear himself of the murder charge, Wakely croons his own “Too Bad, Little Girl, Too Bad,” “Good Morning Mr. Sunshine,” and two or three other selections, while Lee “Lasses” White performs “When the Sunset Bids the Desert Goodbye” and an aggregation calling [...]

Scientist keeps a wealthy banker’s brain alive in a lab, but the brain has plans of its own, like finding its body’s murderer. Based on Curt Siodmak’s “Donovan’s Brain”. Dir. Freddie Francis

Renfrew the singing mountie must go after the thieves who hijacked a mining company’s shipment of gold. Songs include: “You’re Easy on the Eyes” & “Crimson Sunset”. Dir. Elmer Clifton

Pickford in dual role as Stella, a beloved, crippled young girl who has been brought up by adoring relatives and servants, and as Unity, a cruelly treated orphan. Dir. Charles Riesner.

Muggsy plays an aspiring jockey who loses his nerve on the track.