Author Archive: Retro

Romantic love story with an all-bird cast about the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Chirpendale. Created by Ken Murray. Color. Dir. Dean Riesner. Acadamy Award Winner.

An unabashed gold-digger shows the ropes to her two naive showgirl friends. Dir. Lowell Sherman.

A British versus an Italian in a race to scale a treacherous mountain.

Nazi commandos hijack the train carrying British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and only one man can save them in this fast-paced WWII thriller.

Four early shorts with Ben Blue Billy Gilbert

In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry–on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked.

In New Orleans, a man learns that his sister has a black lover and is pregnant. He throws her away and, a bit later, she is murdered by a mysterious killer with a peace-sign belt buckle, who disguises the murder as suicide. Her friend Vince and a black priest investigates, but this leads to more murders until a surprise ending…

A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.

A “kept” woman finds love when her childhood sweetheart comes to town, but balks at telling him about her past.