Author Archive: Retro

Alaskan salmon fisherman battles a corrupt competitor and falls in love with a beautiful society girl and a bawdy barmaid. Dir. George Archainbaud

Clarke and McCullogh. A compilation of early shorts.

Amnesiac soldier marries a girl, and wakes up to find he has twin daughters!

Based on the famed comic strip “Joe Palooka”. A fast talking manager introduces a naive country bumpkin to boxing. Dir. Stanley Donen.

A soldier is knocked unconscious and dreams? Written by Bud Flanagan. Dir. Frank Strayer.

An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited independence while she is drawn to his old-fashioned romanticism.

Hit Lady star Yvette Mimieux also wrote the screenplay for this made-for-TV suspenser. Per the title, Mimieux plays a professional assassin. “And she never misses,” declared the print ads for this film. When not working for the mob, she is a successful painter. Hit Lady slammed and blammed its way to the airwaves on October 8, 1974.

After being raped by a gypsy, Maddalena (Phyllis Calvert) develops a split personality. Years pass and she marries and starts a family in Rome. But, unbeknownst to her loving daughter Angela (Patricia Roc) and wealthy husband, Maddalena leads a double life. For days at a time she disappears to Florence, where she becomes a sultry gypsy girl and moll to crafty thief Nino (Stewart Granger). But Maddalena’s secret is exposed when her daughter decides to follow her one day.

A pair of kidnap victims turn the tables on their captors.