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

Crime drama about juvenile delinquency, society’s view of it and law enforcement’s response to it in 1950s America.

Two teen sisters leave their no-good father for a lurid life on the road.

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