Author Archive: Retro

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Anna Christie arrives at her father’s barge, an emotionally wounded woman with a hidden past. When she falls in love with sailor Matt, she is reluctant to marry him, haunted by her recent past.

An elderly professor’s ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

An early masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock.

After her father’s death, Mary Rainey takes over the Rainey Circus (which operates twice daily, rain or shine) but runs into financial troubles.

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée’s family.

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man’s arms.

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.