Author Archive: Retro

Ten people with dark black pasts are assembled on a remote island by an unknown host, who accuses them of their past crimes and begins picking them off one by one. Based on the novel “Ten Little Indians” by mystery guru Agatha Christie. Dir. Ren? Clair

Beautiful photography highlights this story of two expeditions, one British, the other Italian, engaged in a dangerous race to be the first to conquer the Matterhorn. Written by Emeric Pressburger. Dir. Milton Rosmer, Luis Trenker

When a Chicago police reporter solves a gangland murder, he is kidnapped by the gangsters in order to keep him from testifying. Dir. Jean Yarbrough

Montgomery as a Canadian officer behind enemy lines having an tryst with a Parisian dancer.

Successful stage play is transferred to the screen as two enemies go to any lengths to make sure that the marriage of their children never takes place. Watch for Audrey Hepburn, appearing here in her first feature.

A child at boarding school sees his teacher commit murder. The teacher knows someone saw but not which student.

Severine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them, but doesn’t tell the police, because he’s in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her…

A bogus mindreader inexplicably gains the ability to see into the future… at what cost?

Chuck Toedan’s the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin.