Author Archive: Retro

Fledgling lawyer Barnes defends sabateurs with successful results.

A large newspaper’s former owner concocts a scheme to regain control of the publication from the woman now in charge.

The most eligible bachelor in Dog Patch, Li’l Abner, is being chased by sweetheart Daisy Mae who wants to marry him. Dir. Marcel Pagnol.

A woman vacationing with her husband in Mexico discovers she is being stalked by an international killer. TV movie.

Socialite tries to hide a dark secret in her past from the man she loves, and must also keep her philandering ex-boyfriend away from her little sister. Dir. Jerry Warren.

Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.

There’s trouble in Frankie Diomede’s criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into Frankie’s territory, so Frankie flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he’ll have the perfect alibi when his top local associate dies, but then Frankie’s life gets complicated: his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison for awhile, his associates and allies are killed one at a time, and attempts on his life start. Help comes from an unlikely source: Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy who’s a Milanese raised in Hoboken. Tony designs a plan to spring Frankie from jail, and then all roads lead to Marseilles. Is Tony a future Mafia don?

Secret agents set out in hot pursuit of enemy spies who are determined to keep tabs on a space capsule.

Good example of the type of movies made in England during the war, to keep spirits up. The Brits never seem to engage in gung-ho war stuff: which makes for more pleasant viewing.