Author Archive: Retro

Carrie, Mitzie, and Chicago get in trouble a lot in the women’s prison, but are offered early parolement if they agree to become subjects of a study on human aggression and antisocial behavior at a Kansas City college. Dr. Blalock, the professor in charge of the study, is accepting money under the table from a shady government contact to use an experimental drug on the women. The drug induces the same hostile behavior the doctor is supposedly trying to cure, and after a while the women have a hard time conducting themselves in a civil manner. Carrie begins figuring out the scam and must rely on Blalock’s son to help her.

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar.

A farmer and his friends must flee from Angolan rebels escaping through the savage jungle.

Life and times of Bruce Lee from his beginnings in Hong Kong, his days as a student at the University of Washington and his eventual move to Los Angeles and his involvements in the movies.

Biopic of Russia’s naval hero Admiral Ushakov and his control of the Black Sea Fleet.

While flying to an international news conference in Melbourne, radio commentator Mark Bradley and his pilot, Joe Walker, are forced to crash land on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. They find this island is inhabited by Dr. Paul Lujan and his three beautiful daughters: Venus, Mercuria, and Urana. Lujan, a nuclear scientist, has fled here to escape from a world which is like “a horrible great snowball rolling faster and faster toward extinction.” He doesn’t want his two visitors to leave, lest they reveal his whereabouts, so he destroys their plane. With help from the two older daughters, however, the men begin to construct a raft. (Mark and Venus have fallen in love as have Joe and Mercuria). A fire in Lujan’s solar furnace now causes an explosion which nearly wrecks the island but which attracts the attention of a search plane. Mark, Joe, and the three young women look forward to being [...]

Jerusalem, 1000 B.C. : Son of King Solomon and his friend make perilous journey to Sheba in disguise to investigate warlike activities of that nation.