Author Archive: Retro

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.

A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!

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.