Author Archive: Retro

Family comedy set in Australia about an American comedian/con man (Caesar) who falls for a lovely lady (Mills) whitha cute daughter and and even cuter koala bear.

Flash flood seeps a boy and his sister onto an island in the Missiippie River, where they are trapped with a cougar and her newborn cubs. In an effort to escape from the island, they find themselves menaced by two ruthless rivermen. Well-made family adventure based on the novel “An American Ghost”

15-year-old orphan Biarn Turner (De Wilde) struggles to survive in the rural South in the 1910’s. He arrives in a small town where crusty small-town newspaper editor Doyle Magee (Merrill) decides to take the boy in and give him a chance at a regular life. Wealthy local farmer Tobias Brown (Marvin) also takes an interest in Biarn’s future, but treats the young man cruelly, masking Tobias’ real hidden feelings of affection and genuine concern. Biarn also proves his worth by training racehorses for the climactic annual horse race.

HE’S BACK!…in the most human heart-warming picture in years!

A saboteur who tampered with an experimental aeronautics device is pursued by a man and his dog in this tale of adventure and intrigue from director Raymond K. Johnson.

Womanizing biologist studies life in colony of penguins.

During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog’s cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign.