Author Archive: Retro

After the war, an intelligence operator cleans up a Communist sabotage, which consists of disabling American soldiers by plying them with booze and girls. Dir. Dorrell McGowan, Stuart McGowan

Another essentially Bardot vehicle, this movie has little plot other than inheritance with a nearly insurmountable stipulation. When the village idiot inherits the town inn, there is a stipulation that he must first get his grammar school diploma. Bourvil gets some good comedic scenes from the plot, while foiling a greedy cousin, played by Brigitte Bardot.

Narrated by Charles Boyer. The life of a French family during three generations of German aggression.

It’s up to the gang to stop a ring of saboteurs who are trying to steal the blueprints of a new plane. Features the two-fisted boys from Dead End in the comedy/drama series. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabe Dell and Billy Benedict.

Calvert as master detective Michael Waring, aka “The Falcon”, who is hired to clear the name of an innocent man accused of killing a racetrack operator. Dir. John Link

American spy being hidden from the Nazis by an Italian contact, learns that the contact’s wife is having an affair with a German officer, and wants the American out of the way. Dir. Irvin Kershner

East Side Kids harass Japanese shop-owners and uncover a spy ring out to overthrow the U.S. government. Dir. Walter Forde.

Excellent film portraying a young mechanic’s downward spiral into self-destruction when he commits a minor criminal act. Dir. Irving Pichel

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentement in Tahiti.