Author Archive: Retro

Top-notch thriller set after World War 11 featuring Glenn Ford as an ex-paratrooper hired by a church to find a bejeweled glove lifted by ex-Nazi crook George Macready. Geraldine Brooks and Gaby Andre also star in this atmospheric yarn.

Barbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin, had tried to do away with her, and is also (rightfully) curious as to just who was the woman buried under her name. She learns that the victim was glamor girl Helen Lawrence, with whom her husband had been having an affair. Complications come from her sister Rusty, who, it turns out, is not her real sister and also doesn’t like her a whole lot, and from a dim-witted prize fighter, George Mandley. The family attorney, Michael Dunn, stands around and provides little in the way of help or reason for being there, until…

Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.

Organized crime; Don Vincenzo leads the pack and his faced with a huge struggle.

A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.

Something is chasing Philip, something unseen, unspeakable, inescapable, never letting go, from the sands of Port Melbourne to the darkest corridors of the old Architecture Building… drastic measures will be necessary. Starring Philip Goad, Simon D’Orsogna and Jennie Davis.

A young convict,Johnny Coulter, serving as a trustee and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the hardened criminals. They separate after the break but circumstances bring them together again. Johnny and a waitress, Hope Novak, fall in love and, together, they help the law recapture the escapee and his henchmen.

Crippled farmer must prevent his daughter and her boyfriend from finding out the truth about the mysterious red house that sits on his property. Written by Delmer Daves, from the novel by George Agnew Chamberlain. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Delmer Daves