Author Archive: Retro

Crazy-man Tod Slaughter plays a mild-mannered moneylender who moonlights as the serial killer known as “The Spinebreaker” for his unique way of taking care of his victims. Dir. George King

Magazine reporter and a girl are assignd to observe a mysterious tribe in Mexican jungle and fnd themselves sentenced to death.

Young jockey Darro rescues a crippled horse from the glue factory, and must beat the fastest horse in the country to clear his brother of an accusation that he threw a race. Dir. Irving Pichel.

Samuel Fuller was originally set to direct this turgid racial melodrama but jumped ship, replaced by Terence Young. Lee Marvin stars as Sheriff Bascomb, the entire law enforcement department in a small Southern town, who is trying to keep a lid on local Ku Klux Klan activity. But racial tensions first simmer and then explode when Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is raped and the town’s mayor Hardy (David Huddleston), who is also the head of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, blames an innocent black man for the crime. Also involved in the proceedings is local landowner Breck Stancill (Richard Burton), who must have modeled his Southern accent on the soupy delivery of James Mason in Mandingo.

Tarzan swings to rescue a young woman from an evil African ruler, who whisks her away to his harem in a hidden fortress. Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. David Ross Lederman

Two scheming ne’er-do-wells find a lost nuclear weapon in the ocean near Los Angeles. They decide to light-heartedly try and blackmail the city by asking for money from each citizen. This arouses the attention of the local authorities.

Mile-a-Minute-Love is a 1937 American drama film written by Duncan Renaldo who also stars as phony Spanish Count Ribalto. The ersatz count steals a racing boat and swindles Wynne Drexel out of $100,000.

A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff.

A burning building is the setting for acts of courage and cowardice. Dir. Armand Schaefer and Colbert Clark.