Author Archives for Retro
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Streamline Express 1935
A look at various people’s lives as they travel by means of a new high-speed train across the country. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on House of Secrets 1936
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
- January 29, 2021
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- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Where There’s A Will 1936
An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Red Lights Ahead 1937
Man invests in a gold mine which seems to be paying off, and as a result his children begin to put on airs. Dir. Walter Lang.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Men Are Not Gods 1936
In this story, which derives its name from a line from Othello, an actor playing Othello nearly kills his wife during Desdemona’s death scene. Unfortunately, the plot is heavy, the dialogue verbose, and the action nonexistent.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Princess Tam Tam 1936
Josephine Baker stars as a Tunisian shepherdess who becomes a Parisian socialite.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Only One Night 1939
When a circus carousel operator learns he is the illegitimate son of a wealthy baron, he moves in with his father and sets his sights on becoming an aristocrat. Attracted to the Baron’s beautiful but distant young ward, he discovers that overcoming his lowly background is a seeminly insurmountable task in the sophisticated world of the wealthy.
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- Comments Off on Man With A Movie Camera 1929
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
