Author Archive: Retro

The death of a lovely and dangerous extortionist leads to an investigation by sleuth Tearle who believes the death was a murder.

Fishermen take over an abandoned yacht and become involved in a heroin smuggling operation. Color.

A jungle-raised white woman (Ann Corio) helps Americans (Buster Crabbe, Evelyn Wahl) foil Nazis out to stir up natives.

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton’s lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana’s severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina’s sanity.

In a quiet, all-black Oklahoma community live the Wilsons, whose pretty daughter Margaret is courted by awkward Buster and suave stage mentalist Prince Alihabad. On one busy night, Mr. Wilson shows his valuables to Alihabad, who plans to elope with Margaret; a mysterious man hangs around while another burglarizes the house; and someone murders Mr. Wilson! Will the killer be caught by the police, or by bumbling correspondence-school detective Junior Lingley?

A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly but inexorably spirals into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.

Former commando plans the perfect murder, but is drawn into confusion and hysteria when teenagers use his gun to murder tourists. Music by Miles Davis. English subtitles. Dir. Richard Cunha.

To make ends meet, a lawyer and his wife pose as their own servants. Dir. Frank Strayer.

Truck driver masquerades as a college athlete and wins the game; comedy with musical entries.