Author Archive: Retro

The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Rae Lane entices her workaholic boss to come to a nudist camp in the hopes of winning his heart. Things go swimmingly, until attractive and pert blond Barbara captures his attention.

Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence.

Melodrama warns against the threat of forced female sterilization. Watch for Writer/Director Wilbur as “Father O’Brien”. Dir. Crane Wilbur.

Townspeople want to sterilize a woman because her family is regarded as a bunch of derelicts and it is feared that her children will be the same.
100% hysterical! This ancient cry for the end of forced sterilisation will have you bewildered, and laughing. The Board of Health wishes to streilise a family of nitwits. The parents are lazy boozehounds well past 70 years old, yet they have infant children! Their oldest daughter is up for the operation, but she’s normal wants to marry some nice guy, and have kids. Highlights include a courtroom scene where a judge decides if an insane young man is to be sterilised.

A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.

Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women–along with the help of two men–plot an escape. (Josiah Howard, “Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.”)

A teenage girl has trouble warming up to her new step-mother. Hanging out with Soho beatniks, the girl discovers her new mom may have lead a life of ill repute.

Crime, premarital sex and hard drugs are all part of a young girl’s downward spiral into moral corruption. She never should’ve had that first joint! Dir. Dwain Esper