Author Archive: Retro

Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that’ll regress a cat to a sabertooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal.

Dir. Freddie Francis. Aliens seek help from Earth after their spaceship crashes into the Moon.

Alien teenagers come to conquer Earth and find food for their pet monsters.

Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.

Woman shoots her husband and tries to cover up the killing with the help of her lover, a homicide detective. Trouble ensues when the detective’s honest younger brother, also a cop, discovers their secret. Dir. Felix E. Feist

An evil brain surgeon implants murderous suggestions into a psychopathic amnesia victim’s mind.

Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.

Medical student, self conscious about his club foot, becomes obsessed with a cold hearted cockney waitress. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

An innocent man is accused, tried, and convicted of an unknown crime; the more he investigates the accusations, the farther he falls into a pit of bureaucratic red tape. Screenplay by Orson Welles, from the novel by Franz Kafka. Dir. Orson Welles