Author Archive: Retro

Genghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. However, his son Ogotai is itching for war, and his mistress eggs him on to defy his father and take the city.

Italian director Tonino Ricci helmed this 1974 snowbound adventure film about a young boyin danger and the courageous wolf who comes to his rescue

Palance is a gang lord with a weakness for women who picks a fight with the mob in Prohibition America. Dir. William H. Bushnell Jr.

74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators’ school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire.

A young man must face the challenge of his life by battling against an evil master who is out to eliminate all of his enemies.

The exploits of a 19th-century French nobleman, as he protects citizens from the tyrannical Royalists who are demanding tribute from the poor. Dir. Thomas Carr

Two US government agents, Hal Duncan and Sam Bradley, must prevent agents of a foreign power, led by Regan and Cady, from hijacking trucks and stealing defence materials being transported by truck. They are hired by an interstate trucking association whose constituent truck lines have been principal targets of the hijacking, and it becomes evident that one of the four directors of the association – Armstrong, Crandall, Thompson or Willard – is the secret leader of this gang and provides them with shipment and route information necessary for the gang’s successes.