Author Archive: Retro

When one of two rival pearl divers in the Solomon Islands emerges in a diving suit, the natives think he is a sea god; a romance then develops around an endangered heroine and native unrest.

Two friends enlist in the British army during World War I and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.

Two Foreign Legion officers in southern Morocco uncover an apparent secret weapon test after one of them is killed.

THE CANDIDATE stars Mamie Van Doren and June Wilkinson in a salacious political satire involving the sexcapades of an up and coming politician (Ted Knight).

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.

Political turmoil in 19th-century Russia draws Razumov, a young student bound for the czarist bureaucracy, into the assassination of a public figure.

Michel, a newly arrived prisoner on Devil’s Island, becomes a houseboy to the warden and falls into a doomed romance with Madame Vidal that leads to confinement, escape, and a manhunt. wikipedia

Love and skulduggery play out against the backdrop of the Indianapolis 500, with a driver chasing racing glory. Rottentomatoes

Lastro, a rogue pirate sails to Tapit where he encounters Nydra, an Americana singer in a waterfront dive, who is the object of Harry Beall’s jealous affections.