Author Archive: Retro

A recovering alcoholic learns from a detective that a gruesome murder had been committed in her house.

Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Eizô Kitamura

Japanese WWII soldiers stash a gold treasure in a cave in the Philippines’ forest after being attacked by a native tribe. Decades later, a ragtag team sets out to retrieve the gold.

Ed Byrnes of 77 Sunset Strip and veteran actor Gilbert Roland star in this spaghetti western spoof of the early Clint Eastwood westerns. Edd Byrnes is the Eastwood type hero, Gilbert Roland is a much less subdued version of the Eli Wallach character. Three dangerous men are after a hidden fortune, lots of double-crosses and it moves fast. Lots of action and gunplay. (Aka Any Gun Can Play).

Brilliant historical drama centering on Russian painter who gets involved with a peasant uprising. Second part in COLOR. English subtitles. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

The story of Anthony Blunt, the “fourth man” in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.

Vampire’s girlfriend needs a heart transplant, so he takes his hunchbacked ogre and goes after her sister to get a compatable organ. English dubbed. Dir. Gerardo de Leon