Author Archive: Retro

UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.

Ireland exposes a gang of racist thugs.

Poverty-stricken soldier of fortune is sentenced to death, but will be given a pardon if he kills a treacherous duke for the wicked Cardinal Richelieu. Dir. Victor Sj?str?m

Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.

An escaped Nazi poses as a British scientist in a research lab.

Commander of a Foreign Legion desert garrison falls for the daughter of an enemy Arab who is promoting revolution. Dir. Robert Florey

Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled by Lloyd.

Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a cafe in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett.