Author Archive: Retro

Author Archives for 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 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.

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

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