Author Archive: Retro

Behind the scenes look at why Alexander Korda’s spendy epic “I, CLAUDIUS” (1937) was never completed.

A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.

Long takes the blame for a financial swindle and jumps bail.

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Italian adventure about Norman invaders.

A widower ladies man courts and marries the coat-check-girl. In the night of their wedding they receive a letter from his daughter in Mexico D.C. with the announcement that the dead wife’s sister is coming to marry him.

Mysterious Japanese woman travels to Canada seeking revenge against the man who destroyed her family during the war. Complications arise when she falls in love with the man’s son. Written and Produced by best-selling author James Clavell. Dir. James Clavell

A Nisei officer (Lane Nakano) on a Dutch freighter falls in love with a nightclub hostess (Tamiko Aya) in Tokyo.

The East Is Red, also known as The East Is Red: A Song and Dance Epic, is a 1965 Chinese film directed by Wang Ping. It is based on an opera assembled by Zhou Enlai and presents an abridged history of the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong’s leadership. The film traces the revolution from the May Fourth Movement to the Civil War against the Nationalist Party, culminating in the CCP victory and the founding of the People’s Republic of China