Author Archive: Retro

Swords and Sandals epic. Zorro meets Baron Scarpia in 18th century Naples. Replete with revolution, a Zorro-like hero, a villainous Baron Scarpia of a police chief, and a duel-to-death at the end.

After his mother’s death a boxer receives an injury to his arm which heals improperly, forcing him to retire and become a nightclub bouncer.

A mobster relocates to a new town to continue his schemes, and begins by turning public sentiment against the local District Attorney.

Mistreated daughters abandon their family because of lack of attention.

A madman murders Sir Percival Glyde. Taking on his victim’s identity, the man returns to the Glyde ancestral home, Blackwater Park, in hopes of claiming a large inheritance. However, the estate is heavily in debt. Still hungry for wealth, the false “Glyde” takes advantage of a long-standing betrothal promise to marry young and beautiful heiress Laurie Fairlie. Having his true identity revealed could ruin everything, but this lascivious and diabolical “Glyde” is more than willing to kill anyone who stands in his way… This story is loosely based on Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.

Beautiful diva is involved in a plan to smuggle precious jewels plots to trick her partners.

This movie is kind of like “Lord of the Flies”. A family of children (no mother or father present) desire to have guardians (Mom and Dad), so they kidnap a man and woman to be just that. Not every one of the children (in fact most of them are not) aware of the secret!

Jewel thief checks into a hotel to find the jewels he stashed there years earlier.

Cantankerous old screwball visits his son in Pilgrim Hill.