Author Archive: Retro

A young widower with his new wife returns to the mansion in which his first wife died under strange and unexplained circumstances.

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, who is a police detective, doesn’t believe she did it and sets out to prove her innocence

A fisherman thought drowned returns to find that his wife is expecting his best friend’s baby. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. His last silent film.

Widowed farmer searches for a new wife, overlooking the most obvious choice. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.

Lugosi plays a mad scientist trying to devise a race of atomic-powered supermen. Written and Produced by Edward D. Wood, Jr. Dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.

An old witch seeks vengence through the daughter of the politician who had her thrown in jail. Soon the little girl’s head is spinning around, and an old priest is called in to perform an exorcism.

A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch (who happens to be both beautiful and naked) rises from her grave and embarks on a campaign of seduction and murder against the descendants of her persecutors. It’s up to the student to stop her bloody reign of terror-if he can resist the seductive powers of her evil beauty.

Rise and fall of a railroad poerter whose exploits take him from a life sentence on a chain gang to self-declared Emperor of Haiti.