Author Archive: Retro

In 1821,among the first British sailors to set foot on New Zealand, Phillip Wayne befriends a Maori tribe’s chief, marries in England and returns to New Zealand with a small group of followers to settle.

Beatty heads an expedition into the deepest part of the Congo in search of lions and gorillas, and stumbles upon a dangerous tribe. Dir. George Blair

In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.

The owner of a small ocean vessel helps a scientist to escape communist Germany.

Beautiful Jamaican scenery highlights this story of greed and treasure-hunting as three adventure seekers battle each other for sunken loot. Produced by W. Lee Wilder. Dir. W. Lee Wilder

Boxer Teddy Wilcox (Robert Blake) leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox’s first fight, Nick receives a threat– Wilcox loses, or Nick will die. Despite Nick’s efforts to sabotage the fight, Wilcox wins. Enraged, Wilcox orders Nick to keep away from him. Later that night, Nick is murdered. Of course, Wilcox is the primary suspect. Wilcox then tries to clear his name and find Nick’s killer.

A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the orphan begins to generate business himself by shooting people. The orphan wants to make one big score by robbing a bank but the gravedigger resists. Their dream is to open a fancy funeral parlor and cemetery. The orphan becomes obsessed with a prostitute he saw who was later abandoned by her outlaw partner after a robbery attempt on a gold wagon goes bad. He eventually leaves the gravedigger to find her.

A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.

When a big ocean liner?s cargo of fertilizer catches fire, it causes an explosion and pretty soon, the whole ship is ablaze. A helpful newlywed passing by in a canoe and a stowaway help try to fight the fire.