Author Archive: Retro

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar.

A farmer and his friends must flee from Angolan rebels escaping through the savage jungle.

Life and times of Bruce Lee from his beginnings in Hong Kong, his days as a student at the University of Washington and his eventual move to Los Angeles and his involvements in the movies.

Biopic of Russia’s naval hero Admiral Ushakov and his control of the Black Sea Fleet.

While flying to an international news conference in Melbourne, radio commentator Mark Bradley and his pilot, Joe Walker, are forced to crash land on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. They find this island is inhabited by Dr. Paul Lujan and his three beautiful daughters: Venus, Mercuria, and Urana. Lujan, a nuclear scientist, has fled here to escape from a world which is like “a horrible great snowball rolling faster and faster toward extinction.” He doesn’t want his two visitors to leave, lest they reveal his whereabouts, so he destroys their plane. With help from the two older daughters, however, the men begin to construct a raft. (Mark and Venus have fallen in love as have Joe and Mercuria). A fire in Lujan’s solar furnace now causes an explosion which nearly wrecks the island but which attracts the attention of a search plane. Mark, Joe, and the three young women look forward to being [...]

Jerusalem, 1000 B.C. : Son of King Solomon and his friend make perilous journey to Sheba in disguise to investigate warlike activities of that nation.

Ship captain teams up with an South Seas island princess to help her islanders run off pearl smugglers who are forcing her people to dive for buried treasure. Dir. Lee Sholem, Elmo Williams