Author Archive: Retro

George Montgomery plays a cynical doctor that is taken to prison at Samar island because his political opinions. The commander (Gilbert Roland) is waiting for his own doctor, that is supposed to work with him in moving the population to the interior.

Hospital soap opera about the lives of various patients and staff members. Color. Dir. Robert North Bradbury.

Frank Sundstrom as Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Best selling author Frederick Forsyth (“Day of the Jackal”) wrote this suspenseful tale about a Viet Nam vet whose life is destroyed when a plan crashes into his Dublin house, killing his family. He discovers that Irish terrorists are responsible and uses his military skills to wreak vengeance.

Set in post war Japan, the film tells the tale of a woman looking for her missing brother. Her brother operated a small export business and has suddenly disappeared. Strangely his business partner has also vanished.

Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Holland during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.

The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6-8 and 13-16 of The Book of Judges.