Author Archive: Retro

In this youthful adventure, a young boy and a wild stallion, Black Diamond, form an unbreakable bond. It is the boy’s father who captured and gentled the remarkable horse. Later, when the father’s life is threatened by wicked claim jumpers after his mine, the boy and the courageous horse rush to his aid.

In the 1940s, a city girl moves from America to her husband’s failing farm in Southern Rhodesia in colonial Africa. Unhappy and unhinged, she starts an affair with their black servant which leads to tragedy.

A group of men calling themselves ‘The Pirates of Capri”, headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1779. The Queen is advised of the pirate’s assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fianc?e, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.

The famous swordsman Hsia Feng gathers five other fighters and rallies the local fishermen to fight off a band of Japanese pirates.

Three husbands receive letters from a recently deceased playboy, implicating their wives in extramarital affairs with him. Dir. Irving Reis.

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag’s old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

Directed by Anthony Mann. Lavish and exciting historical epic about the quest for a book containing important information sought by both peasants and aristocrats during the French Revolution. Aka “Reign of Terror.”