Author Archive: Retro

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai.

Two highway patrolmen think they are working on the side repossessing cars. But eventually, they realize that they have been tricked and are actually stealing the cars.

Action-packed thriller about a Vietnam vet out to find a group of Irish terrorists that killed his family.

Cleopatra, after the civil war that followed the assassination of Caesar, met with Marc Antony in Assyria where they planned the defense of Egypt against the Romans. Before leaving, Cleopatra entrusted her young daughter, Shila, to the rulers of Assyria to be brought up as their own. After Marc Antony’s defeat and Cleopatra’s death, Egypt, for the next twenty years, was torn apart and ruled by a youthful Pharaoh, Nemorat, with his despot Queen Mother, Tegi, who desired to unite both kingdoms and strengthen her son’s rule by conquering Assyria and making Shila, now a beautiful woman, his queen.

Tarzan frees animals from greedy trappers who are capturing animals for zoos, while keeping the treasures of a lost city intact. Originally a three part pilot for a TV series. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Charles Haas, Sandy Howard, H. Bruce Humberstone

A rich man Harold Gern (Antony Carbone), busy with making money and spending it just as fast, is newly married with Evelyn (Betsy Jones-Moreland) and on his honeymoon in Puerto Rico. His lawyer MArtin Joyce (Robert Towne as Edward Wain) is there too on business to try and get him out of a situation with the government. Harold ganbles a lot and one day decide to deal with the lawyer by going fishing and scooba diving. The three go underwater fishing and after a small accident with a speargun, they all come up to the boat. When they remove their air apparatus, they can’t breath. Keeping the air tanks, they go back to shore to find help. As they cross the jungle to get to town quicker, they run out of air, but they realize plants give out oxygen and they are able to breath once again. They discover that everyone, even animals, are all [...]

Entertainer in the circus falls for a rich young man, and decides to hide from his family the fact that she’s a lowly circus performer. Dir. Herbert Wilcox

Young soldier on leave in New York visits the “Stage Door Canteen”, a real war-time hot spot where popular stars entertained the troops. He falls in love with one of the servers, despite the Canteen’s strict no-dating rules. Songs include: “The Girl I Love To Leave Behind”, “She’s a Bombshell from Brooklyn”, “We Musn’t Say Goodbye” and more. Dir. Frank Borzage