Author Archive: Retro

A doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.

A farmer wins a sheep dog competition and saves his land which was in threat of being taken

Cocteau’s first film detailing the surrealistic events following the fall of a chimney. Narrated by Jean Cocteau. English subtitles. Dir. Jean Cocteau.

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A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.

When his father is killed by racketeers, a newspaper publisher uses the paper to run a crooked District Attorney out of town. Dir. Howard P. Bretherton

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.

Eddie Roback (Dane Clark), an American army deserter turned criminal, is going to trial in Paris after a ten-month delay when he is sprung on his way to court in a pitched gun battle. A manhunt ensues with the police just a few paces behind, including a nicely staged scene in a department store in which Roback manages to improvise an escape, only to be standing by across the street from his intended destination as his waiting confederates are taken by the police. Investigators try to get ahead of him by reaching out his girlfriend, Denise Vernon (Simone Signoret). Feigning innocence, she makes contact with the wounded Roback, who is turned away by his former associates in his attempts to find shelter and escape. She eventually finds him a hiding place in the studio of Max Salva, a lecherous photographer with a sadistic streak, who may have given Roback up to the police. Denise tries [...]