Author Archive: Retro

Kelly, a prostitute, finds redemption in the town of Grantville, where she arrives working as a medium-time seller. There, she meets Griff, the police captain of the town, with whom she spends a romantic afternoon. The woman, traumatized by an experience in the past called “The Naked Kiss” by psychiatrists, finally, finds a job as a nurser in a Hospital for handicapped children, experience that allows her to find a sensitive side in caring and patiently love each one of her little patients. Apparently, Kelly will find happiness in Grant, her fianc? and Griff’s partner, but she will be the witness of a shocking event that will threaten this happiness and even her mental health.

A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy’s girlfriend, kills a few police officers and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.

Woman is bound to her husband by a crime she had commited long ago. Dir. Lewis Milestone.

An artist goes into hiding after witnessing a mob murder, leaving his wife open to attack by the killer. Written by Norman Foster. Dir. Norman Foster.

One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because “the polyp’s feeler” reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public prosecutor try to prove that the architect in the city is in the mafia.

A man given a lethal poison tries to find who did it and why before his death. Commonly known as the definitive “film noir”. Garland’s film debut. Directorial debut of Rudolph Mat?. Dir. Rudolph Mat?

Sinatra delivers a compelling performance as a psycho killer organizing a plan to assassinate the President. Excellent, quickly paced crime drama.