Author Archive: Retro

Pioneering film that presented “realistic” space travel, as scientists build the first rocket to the moon. Includes a “Woody Woodpecker” cartoon sequence by Walter Lantz. Produced by George Pal, Written by sci-fi great Robert A. Heinlein. Dir. Irving Pichel

Hunters and biologists try to capture a vicious white gorilla, which may be the key to the evolution theory. Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield. A thrilling jungle hunt for the rarest of all beasts in the Belgian Congo–an albino gorilla.

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down.

An office secretary from Scranton, Pennsylvania (Rosalind Hayes) sets out to find her great-grandfather’s hidden treasure. She enlists the aid of a former Marine Engineer turned harbor bum (Sonny Tufts) and the greedy Captain (Tom Monroe) of the sea ship “Constellation”. They find the gold hidden on an island near Haite, but it’s guarded by a voodoo cult and a boa constrictor

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up

What happens when four humans and a woman scientist are terrorized by a machine that probes their innermost thoughts.

People ae being killed in mysterious ways as they man outer space colony. Each clue to the mystery results in more deaths.

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones

A nuclear holocaust leaves two groups of survivors, one a band of cannibal mutants,and the other — seven bickering humans.