Author Archive: Retro

FBI agent is after “The Illustrious One”, the female leader of a Chinese smuggling ring who poses as the head of a travelling carnival. Dir. Bernard B. Ray (Raymond K. Johnson)

Pair of vagabonds arrive in Hollywood with only 25 cents between them.

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée’s house, in order to enable his friend Carmichael to use the house in the family’s absence for a gambling party.

Professor Logan (Leo G. Carroll) is involved in an adult panel discussion of five sex-related issues dramatized in five separate but integrated sequences: “Honeymoon” (pre-marital relations), “Homecoming'(extra-marital relations), “The Divorcee” (promiscuity among divorcees), “Average Man” (problems of the average man in sexual relations) and “Baby” (a story of abortion).

A timid British Army officer has quit and burns his last day summons to a war in Egypt. Calling him a coward, his girl friend and 3 officer friends give him a white feather. In redemption, he shadows his friends in war to save their lives.

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip’s daughter.

A missing corpse and a suspicious train wreck are two leads an American detective follows to track a serial killer while on vacation in France in a puzzling murder case.

In 1674, “reformed” pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica, but Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Maynard goes undercover as ship’s surgeon with a Morgan henchman…who’s been supplanted by notorious Blackbeard himself. Also on the ship is Edwina Mansfield, seemingly a damsel in distress, to whom there’s much more than meets the eye. In color.

Shocked to learn his older wealthy live will live, man sets about planning her murder.