Author Archive: Retro

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.

Two daredevil pilots risk everything to get supplies past a Russian blockade to those starving in Berlin. A airecrewman and air traffic controller become involved with German women during the Berlin airlift of WWII. Filmed on location in Berlin 1950, a testament to the true destruction of the area. Thoughtful and well done. Written by George Seaton. Dir. George Seaton

The woman’s side of war as Neagle plays four women living in different time periods, all married to soldiers who live through four wars, the Crimean and Boer wars, and WWI and II. Color.

Father & grandson go moose hunting and their campsite & equipment catch fire.