Author Archive: Retro

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy’s town through violence and corruption.

Feature Version of Flying Disc Man to Mars Serial

Marshals Lash and Fuzzy have been sent to bring in the masked whip wielding El Azote. When Lash displays his ability with his whip, he is hired to impersonate El Azote. This eventually brings the two together for the climatic whip fight.

Scientist dons rocket suit to fight crime.

Paul Naschy plays a supporting role as a deranged gravedigger in this zombie movie, set in a small highland village in 19th-century Scotland, where a stranger’s arrival to claim an inheritance is met with apocalyptic visions and other evil omens. The town unearths a crypt full of horrors, including a devil-worshipping coven and throngs of the living dead.

Earthquakes and tidal waves destroy coasts; survivors rebuild.

The story of Britain’s ill-fated 1911 expedition to the South Pole, and their race against an expedition from Norway which has the same agenda. Produced by Michael Balcon. Dir. Charles Frend

A psychotic London antique dealer is involved with witchcraft. He believes that human sacrifice pleases an African idol stored in his basement. All of his victims are women, and each death increases his wealth.

Strategic targets on Earth are being destroyed by an unknown weapon. Government security head Henderson suspects it’s an “atomic ray” originating from the moon! He assigns Commando Cody, scientist and man of action with a secret flying suit, to investigate. Soon, Cody is battling Earth thugs in the pay of Krog the moon man and making trips in his experimental rocket to the moon itself, in a perilous and all but singlehanded effort to thwart the planned invasion of Earth. Movie Serial.