Author Archive: Retro

When a woman has been found by the police she tells of being kidnapped, drugged and tortured by Arminda, a brothel madame. For many years they have been trying to shut down her sex palace called The Pagoda, but can’t get close enough as she has friends in high places. But now the woman will help put Arminda away for years.

It is the American Civil War as envisioned by Italians, set apart from the main theaters of conflict, out in the southwestern desert. James Coburn is Col. Pembroke who has lost impregnable Ft. Holman to the Rebs and who has a private scheme to retrieve it along with his honor. He sets out on a commando expedition with a sergeant and a dirty half-dozen volunteers, scalawags freed from the gallows and kept in line (barely) with a promise of hidden gold. Telly Savalas is the Southern commander dreading Pembroke’s reappearance. Exciting action and tense situations.

A day in the life of a woman who is cheating on her husband. English subtitles. Dir. Jean-Luc Godard.

Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. They each in turn fall into the the evil hands of a doctor who forces them to suck each others blood and to whip innocent village virgins so they can lick the oozing cuts clean.

The secretary of a writer and his wife investigates the disappearance of her lover – their previous secretary – and finds herself the target of the couple’s erotic desires and a murder plot.