Author Archive: Retro

A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.

A Christmas Wish is a heartwarming holiday classic about a New York family (led by Durante) who is down on their luck at Christmas time. Shortly before Christmas, they move into a ground floor apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just when it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family’s guardian angel, not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever. The film is enlivened with the warmth and sweetness of an unforgettable love story between Terry Moore (of Mighty Joe Young) and Tom Drake (of Meet Me in St. Louis). Rupert the Squirrel (created using George Pal’s Academy Award winning animation technique) will charm young and old alike. Jimmy Durante shines when he sings Jingle Bells and other well-loved Christmas carols in the evocative voice that made him one of America’s recording legends.

Directed by Robert Lynn. Story of a family who cars for a seal that has been shot. Disney-type family feature.

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.