Author Archive: Retro

Deceased gangster makes a deal with the devil to return to earth as a kindly judge. Dir. Archie Mayo.

Dr. Frankenstein’s insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.

After seeing manifestations of her dead husband, a grieving widow tries to contact him through a small-time con artist posing as a spiritualist. Written by Crane Wilbur. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus. Phony spiritualist schemes with man who fakes his own death to blackmail an unsuspecting filty rich widow.

This star-laden western serial has our able heroes escaping various perils devised by the evil Wolfe Reade and his pack of outlaws, who wish to lay claim to a fabled lost mine.

After inventing an anti-gravity device, scientist Thomas Edmonds and his daughter Mary attend the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio in search of a pilot to demonstrate the device and Bob Raymond, from the U.S. Border Patrol, is chosen.

A money launderer uses women’s wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster

A sleazy gangster has a gang of young girls commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs.

An old Gothic cathedral, built over a mass grave, develops strange powers which trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.

Aviator Dick Moreland uses his winnings from a recent flight to fund an expedition to recover treasure buried by his pirate ancestor. However, Stanley Brasset, another member of Moreland’s club, steals his map and sets out to find the treasure for himself.