Author Archive: Retro

Based on and screenplay adapted from a Hugh Brooke story that appeared in “The Saturday Evening Post” and was not a novel: Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe, a U.S. Military hospital-ship nurse, and Marine Corporal Michael J. “Chicken” Dolan, are the only survivors when a hospital ship hits a mine in the South Pacific during World War II. The two spend months alone on a deserted island and, in spite of the age-difference, fall in love…and for other obvious reasons. Their peaceful existence is shattered when an airplane crashes on the island and the only survivor, William Peck, also falls for Elizabeth. Back in civilization, after being rescued by a passing Navy-ship, they all see each other in a different light and have different reactions than expected.

An ex-adventurer plots revenge on the corrupt corporation that murdered his brother.

Australia in the 1850s. Daniel Morgan, like hundreds of other ex-patriots from the British Isles (he is from Ireland), has come Downunder to seek his fortune. There is a gold rush going on, and Morgan wants to strike it rich. As fate would have it, Morgan soon finds himself on the other side of the law, broke and desperate. A single act of highway robbery gets him 12 years of hard labor. While in prison, he is systematically abused. Upon release, Morgan vows revenge on those who wronged him. With the help of an aborigine named Billy, and a growing legend of audacity, Morgan soon becomes a hero. The locals love him, while the wealthy and powerful fear his influence. They want this outlaw dead or alive, and will stop at nothing to see that their sense of justice is done. But Morgan only wants those to pay for the crimes they have committed, to [...]

Prince Saïd escapes his father’s murderers, sent by traitor Ibrahim who quickly takes over the throne. Becoming a desert bandit he fights to get back his rights, meeting in the meantime beautiful Amina, Ibrahim’s daughter.

Millionaire believes a wild boy living in a jungle area forbidden to whites may be his grandson. Written by Frances Kavanaugh. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

A story about two identical-looking men one a gang boss and the other a college student, their lives change after their fateful meeting

When a media-relations mogul (Johnny Stumper) gains another client in the form of a mob boss (David Henry Wallace), it sparks a war between rival families.