Author Archive: Retro

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.

Orphaned brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, and work to rid their city of a bootlegging gang.

A smooth-talking medicine man comes to the aid of the town beauty. Dir. Scott Pembroke.

Med student Lewis Moffitt harbours a secret fear of the dark stemming from a traumatic childhood incident involving a corpse. Nonetheless, he pretends to be unaffected during the first autopsy witnessed by his class, and generally affects an attitude of fearlessness. This, however, inspires his would-be frat brothers to conceive a particularly morbid initiation ritual — one which will, inevitably, go horribly awry.