Author Archive: Retro

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.

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).