Author Archive: Retro

Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.

Woman shoots her husband and tries to cover up the killing with the help of her lover, a homicide detective. Trouble ensues when the detective’s honest younger brother, also a cop, discovers their secret. Dir. Felix E. Feist

An evil brain surgeon implants murderous suggestions into a psychopathic amnesia victim’s mind.

Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.

Medical student, self conscious about his club foot, becomes obsessed with a cold hearted cockney waitress. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

An innocent man is accused, tried, and convicted of an unknown crime; the more he investigates the accusations, the farther he falls into a pit of bureaucratic red tape. Screenplay by Orson Welles, from the novel by Franz Kafka. Dir. Orson Welles

Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.