Author Archive: Retro

British navy men on forgotten naval base enjoy free and easy life until their superiors find out.

Romantic adventure filmed on location in Austrailia. Lawford and Boone star as two desperate crooks trying to swindle a ranch from its owner. Filmed in breath taking Technicolor.

Classic comedy as a klutzy baby photographer who wants to be a private eye is mistaken for one and is hired to track down a missing baron. Bing Crosby has a cameo.

A former fighter pilot now working as a radio station traffic reporter witnesses a bank robbery. He chases down the bank robbers and a hostage in his helicopter.

The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign – he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).

Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.

A stripper is found murdered–strangled by her own G-string AND poisoned! When a second stripper is found strangled, suspicion falls on the hot new girl, who sets out to find the real killer. Based on the book “The G-String Murders” by Gypsy Rose Lee. Dir. William A. Wellman

Before he “reinvented” himself as Robert Paige, actor David Carlyle headed the cast of Republic’s Meet the Boy Friend. Paige/Carlyle plays radio crooner Tony Page, billed as “America’s Boy Friend” (hence the title). Despite all the publicity hype, Tony is a “regular fellow” who despises the phoniness of show business. When predatory actress Vilma Vlare (Gwili Andre) sets her sights on Tony, his sponsor takes out a $300,000 no-marriage insurance policy. Our hero figures incorrectly that the policy was the handiwork of the insurance agent’s niece June (Carol Hughes), who has made no secret that she’s crazy about the boy. Tony disdainfully challenges the policy by proposing to Vilma but changes his mind when June is kidnapped, rushing to her rescue as a prelude to wedding bells.

Depicts the achievements of William Penn, Quaker Founder of Pennsylvania.