Author Archive: Retro

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.

Lawyer gets a criminal off on a technicality, but it’s all part of his plan to get revenge on his adulterous wife and her lover. Produced by Anson Bond. Dir. Elmer Clifton

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.