Author Archive: Retro

Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.

A couple’s big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shellshocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian’s suspicions about Evelyn’s fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman’s murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge..

Secret service agent falls in love while on assignment in Mississippi, but must clear his lover’s name when she is arrested for the murder of a numbers racketeer.

A young guard and a college professor convicted of manslaughter both start their first day in prison.

A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.