Author Archive: Retro

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

Exploitation auteur Dwain Esper directed this hare-brained expos? on the perils of drug addiction. William Davis (Harry Cording) is a young doctor eager to establish his practice when he makes the mistake of striking up a friendship with wily Asian Gee Wu (J. Stuart Blackton Jr.). Gee Wu introduces William to one of his favorite pastimes, opium, and it isn’t long before William is a hopeless addict. As his habit grows, William’s wife (Joan Dix) becomes increasingly alarmed and persuades him to get medical help. However, quacks foolishly swap William’s opium habit for a prescribed dependence on heroin, leading the hapless medico back where he started. Like most of Esper’s films, The Narcotic was scripted by Hildegarde Stadie, who happened to be Esper’s wife; she supposedly based the story on her uncle’s own unfortunate experience with opiates.

A reporter is assigned to write a article on a nudist camp.