Author Archive: Retro

Maharis is a modern day private eye framed into an embarrassing situation that leads to murder. Characters created by Blake Edwards. Also starring Edward G. Robinson and Joe Besser.

Young boy is permanently crippled after a tenement fire, and vows revenge on the negligent owner of the slums. Dir. Rowland V. Lee.

Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth’s ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain.

Young boxer joins the police department in order to use the state of the art equipment in their gym, but his skills are soon put to the test when a local mob takes two cops hostage. Dir. Eugene Cummings

This is a made for TV movie starring Sally Field and is essentially a story of family interaction through the generations. When Field leaves home to live on a commune, where she experiments with drugs, her decision to return home creates emotional strains on the younger and older generations. Sensitive performances.

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A musical biography of American composer Stephen Foster.

Detective Thatcher Colt must wade through the red herrings at the scene of an opera house, where a hateful diva has been murdered. Dir. William Beaudine

Popular stage performer runs away to join the gypsies.