Author Archive: Retro

In the film Chaney portrays another of the character roles that dubbed him The Man of a Thousand Faces, a Chinese laundry worker who is caught in a tangle of extortion and small-town prejudice.

Faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic with Hicks as the Christmas-hating miser. Dir. Henry Edwards

Cryano, master of sword and poetry is doomed to live with a face of ugliness. He uses the voice of his rival to deliver his message of love to the woman he admires. Famous story of the poetic cavalier who, because of a substantial nasal endowment, finds himself too ugly to be loved. Dir. Michael Gordon. Academy award for Ferrer’s performance.

A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.

A Korean immigrant in L.A. encounters difficulties when he refuses to join the all-Korean gang in his highschool.