Author Archive: Retro

Ken Murray went to Hollywood to capture the movie stars on film. This is his footage and narration.

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

Bond toils in a boys’ school in Yorkshire where he has been apprenticed by his no-good uncle. Conditions at the school are appalling, so Bond and another student escape, join a traveling theatrical troupe, and enjoy a series of adventures.

Two separate episodes that have in common the door that separates good from evil.

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife’s lover.

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife’s lover.

In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation. TV Movie.

An ex-vaudeville actor is the assistant to a doctor with Frankenstein aspirations. After murdering the doctor, the would-be actor finds it necessary to assume the identity of the dead physician. Edgar Allen Poe’s THE BLACK CAT is written into the storyline. All those nasty things people really wanted to see in the deadening 1930s: child birth, heroin addiction, eyeballs popping out of cats’ heads.