Author Archive: Retro

Now, for the first time, through the miracle of modern science, it can be revealed – okay, in 1953 it was a big deal… another one of those wild “road show” pictures actually screened for segregated male/female audiences due to their racy nature.

Married couple’s morals begin to deteriorate when they try to have a baby through artificial insemination. Dir. W. Merle Connell

While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by aseven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, shereturns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attemptto find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them andthe rest of Palm Springs, California.

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor’s assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There’s the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to “cure” homosexual men by having nude women dance for them. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.

Johnny Barrows, a G.I, is dishonorably discharged from the army after striking his commanding officer. When he returns home, he is mugged and thrown in jail. Down on his luck and with no money, he gets a job at a gas station run by a racist jerk. After a while, he beats him up and is thrown in jail again. Shortly after, a mobster hires him as a mafia hit man because of his military training and he now gets caught in the middle of a rival gang war between two families.

A chorus girl’s career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

Educational film details the consequences of those who “go all the way”!

A throbbing tale of shackled youth! ) Marriage customs of the Ozarks. : Schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying young, underage girls. True love does win out when the young girl doesn’t have to marry the lecherous old man.Dir. Harry Revier

A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.

A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. She hires a tough private eye to find her boyfriend and rescue him.