Author Archive: Retro

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.

Escaped convict steals clothes from an architect, who is left with only prison duds to wear until the convict’s gang mistakes him for their boss and gives him a new suit and a wad of cash.