Author Archive: Retro

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

In Nassaum, a border town in an intrigue-infested Central European republic, the body of Dr. Charles Berens, Chief of the United Nations Medical Relief Organization, is seen hurtling from the lofty parapet of an ancient church. He has chosen death rather than capitulate to his murderous pursuers. Police chief Colonel Ferrer arrives in time to hear the dying Berens gasp” “July the 18th! The One Eyed Soldiers.” Unaware he has heard the words that are the key to the location of a fabulous hidden treasure, Ferrer returns to his headquarters. The pursuit and death of Berens has been observed by The Fat Man/Harold Schmidt with more than passing interest, and begins a series of chilling events involving many people. One of them is Beren’s daughter, Gava, because “the key” was meant to be passed to her, and another is American newspaperman Richard Owen, an innocent bystander, who gets caught up in the search and intrigue.

WWII drama about six GI’s separated from their outfits and forced to fight back through the enemy. Six GIs separated from their unit in Nazi-occupied Italy pick up a treacherous Nazi spy, who sabotages their every move. Dir. Alex Nicol