Author Archive: Retro

Small-time showgirl, loved by two decent men, poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father’s murder.

In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.

A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man’s companion. What she doesn’t know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Makeshift gang carries off a theft of $2,000,000 and manages to baffle the police for three years.

Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.

Wealthy, heavily insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious “reverend.”

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman’s murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge..

A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman’s daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.