Author Archive: Retro

Disillusioned crime boss falls in love with a girl who in turn is in love with an innocent death-row inmate. Will an attack of conscience make the gang lord do the right thing? Dir. Lowell Sherman

Incorrigible soldier of fortune deserts wife and son; years later as a revolutionary leader in South America, he meets his engineer-son.

A renegade sheik is stirring up tribesmen to attack atown run by Americans in Saudi.

Wife stands by her husband when he is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Knowing that his greedy relatives long for his death, elderly millionaire Everard Hope (Eliot Makeham) taunts them with hints of who will inherit. After Hope is mysteriously murdered, the family is stunned when a distant niece, Dorothea (Jessie Matthews), is announced as the heiress — on the condition that she spend one full month in the Hope mansion, with only eerie housekeeper Julia (Beatrix Lehmann) and butler Griggs (John Salew) as company. Soon, Dorothea’s life is threatened.

Richard Harrison, one of the most durable of the sword-and-sandal leading men of the 1960s, is top-billed in Hands of Death. The story concerns a gang of martial arts-savvy thieves. Whenever cornered by the authorities, the crooks dispense death and destruction with their bare hands. It’ll take a hero as well-versed in Kung Fu as the heavies to see that justice is done.

Family comedy about an orphan girl who charms a millionaire. Early version of the comic strip.

This is a real Biker-Movie Classic. First leading part for William Smith and also his first biker-movie.

Politician is convinced that a big business conspiracy is behind his election loss. Monroe has a small role.Dir. Terence Fisher.