Author Archive: Retro

Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello. He sends men out to kill Davy, but they instead kill his friend. Gloria is soon kidnapped by Raphello and his men, and it is up to Davy to save her.

Black comedy spy-spoof in which a group of con men try their best to swindle each other out of Uranium-rich land. A quartet of international crooks is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs. Written by Truman Capote. Dir. John Huston.

Four naive Americans, in need of easy cash, decide to fly to Colombia and raid the safe of a notorious drug lord with connections to the corrupt military regime.

A haunting love story set during the Russian Civil War.

Fascinating sequel to Admiral Ushakov.

In this actioner, bounty hunter Sam Kellough, who is also an ex-cop, and an ex-ballplayer, is out to earn the $20,000 reward for the capture of Victor Hale, a psychotic killer wanted for beating a prison guard to death with a “riot glove.” The villain is not as horrible as he seems. When the fugitive is not beating victims to a pulp, he is seen playing his guitar to impoverished children.

Susan vows revenge on the doctor responsible for her sister’s suicide. Well, he did knock her sister up then told her to have an abortion, not cool bro. But first she must escape from the women’s correctional facility she’s in. Did I mention he’s also sleeping with her mother to further his medical career?