Author Archive: Retro

Film classic of life at Rugby, an exclusive British boarding school for boys.

Four-part film on the impact a London train crash has on several passengers, focusing on the driver making his last run before a promotion, an actor leaving for America with a case containing the body of his cheating wife, an orphan girl helping a German POW escape, and a conductor composer who ends an affair because his current lover muffed a note at the last concert.

Government official returns to the US and encounters trouble controlling his E. European secretary.

A socialite joins the WACs expecting to be made an officer, but has to tough it out as an ordinary private.

Mexican-American in California tires of fighting discrimination as he searches for a job, so he decides to try his luck as a boxer. Realistic approach both to its story and the fight scenes.

The Show Must Go On…despite financial problems–Based on the hit Broadway revue. Songs include “C’est si Bon” performed by Eartha Kitt. Written by Ronny Graham, Paul Lynde, and Mel Brooks. Dir. Harry Horner

Washigton hostess joins the WAC’s…and discovers tht she’s not at a garden party

Navajo was one of a group of intelligent “chamber” westerns turned out by Lippert productions in the 1950s. Technically, it’s not a western at all, but what would later be termed a “docudrama.” Shot on location at a Navajo Indian Reservation, the film features nonprofessional Native Americans in the major roles. Francis Kee Teller plays Son of the Hunter, a young Navajo boy who is separated from his family so that he may be given his government-dictated mandatory education. Disdaining the “white” world, Teller runs from his instructors. The two tenderfeet find themselves in a perilous situation, from which the savvy Teller must rescue them. One of the teachers is played by Hall Bartlett, the producer of Navajo (and, parenthetically, the then-husband of actress Rhonda Fleming).

Wilding inherits a dress shop run by Neagle, but keeps getting scooped on new fashions by a rival shop until they find that Wilding’s cousin is a mole for rival shop owner Graves. Produced by Anna Neagle and Written by Nicholas Phipps.