Author Archive: Retro

This documentary covers the single largest migration of immigrants to Ellis Island between 1890 and 1920.

Boulevard du Rhum” is the pleasant, entertaining story of Captain Cornelius (Lino Ventura), a rum-smuggler of the Caribbean Sea during the prohibition in the States. Along his many adventures, he falls in love with the silent-movie actress Linda Larue (Brigitte Bardot), just seeing her on the screen. Afterwards he meets her in flesh. A turbulent love-story follows.

The photography of the Gulf of Mexico is magnificent. Linda Larue has always the role of a half-naked sort-of-queen of some savage tribe. And she is last-minute-rescued when, bounded in chains, she is going to be sacrificed to some ferocious beast…

Young couple inherit a run-down movie theater and the people who work there as well. Dir. Basil Dearden.

Featuring eye-popping skiing footage, this downhill drama centers on three friends who head to Utah for their annual ski trip.

Horror film director must plot to steal the negative of his film in order to save it from being destroyed in an insurance scam cooked up by his sleazy producers.

Nazis force a kidnapped girl to to collaborate with the enemy. Dir. Herbert Wilcox.