Author Archive: Retro

Author Archives for Retro

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.

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.

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