Author Archive: Retro

A terrorist hijacks a 747 on a flight from New York to London.

A Hal Roach TV version of the Three Musketeers.

Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. The film is portrayed as a courtroom drama first painting “Dr. Charlie” as incompetent and easily swindled, then telling his side of events and putting them into context. In the courtroom, and by use of flashback, we hear of Dr. Charlies’ move away from impersonal contribution on an institutional level, and preferring to express Christian stewardship directly to people who need it, and by helping spread the word of God by donating to Mission fronts who fight fear, anxiety and destitution around the world. We even find the scam artists having turned a new leaf, and creating new lives for themselves. Message being that all that we are we owe to God, and [...]

Two federal agents go undercover separately to investigate a spy ring. Unfortunately, each of them are unaware that the other is on the case, and they begin to suspect each other. Dir. Howard P. Bretherton

In a complex sci-fi tale set at some point in the not-too-distant future, an evil industrialist named Francis Turner (John Saxon) has created Paco Querak (Daniel Greene), a cyborg who is 70% robot and 30% human. Paco has been programmed to murder a blind ecologist whose environmental activism does not sit well with Turner’s bottom-line motivation. But once he is set up to do his job, the 30% human component in Paco only permits him to injure the ecologist, not kill him. With the local police (and eventually just about everyone else) after him, Paco detours to Arizona to look for his true identity. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

A boy learns about life and nature when he gets lost in the woods and encounters a kindly old hermit. Color.

Abner’s test results get confused with those of a sickly old man who is going to die in two weeks. Lum decides to cash in by advertising that Abner is a daredevil for hire. He’s going to die anyway, right?!

Romantic comedy about a sailor who must decide between his career or settling down with a cafe singer.