Author Archive: Retro

In this cheap independent film, a pyromaniac is on the loose in a small town. Several good-looking young people fall under suspicion. Is it the obvious “punk” type or the clean-cut kid?

Diligent night school law student Cooper runs a newsstand by day, but when young thugs and the mob want a piece of the action, Cooper and his pal Spellman must fight to remain independant. Dir. King Vidor.

Naish is the leader of a Nazi spy ring in San Francisco.

A collection of sexy jokes.

Lawyer working on a case discovers that a probation officer is the man behind a drug smuggling operation.

A young boy born into a poor family with an alcoholic father, turns to a life of crime.

Group of poor kids in Hell’s Kitchen grow up to very different lives, with a string of murders bringing them back together as adults.

Sympathetic neighbors come to the aid of an uncaring mother of a swamp child.

An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler’s Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.