Author Archive: Retro

Despite its fervently flag-waving title, the British Salute John Citizen is a simple, low-pressure study of the wartime “home front.” Edward Rigby plays Mr. Bunting, an out-of-work clerk who is rehired during the manpower shortage of World War II. Bunting’s son Ernest (Jimmy Hanley) is determined to stay out of the line of fire, but changes his mind after witnessing the horrors of the London Blitz. In its own quiet, unassuming war, Salute John Citizen paints a truer portrait of a proud populace besieged by war than the more celebrated Mrs. Miniver. The film was based on a brace of novels by Robert Greenwood.

Witty comedy about a shy, successful businessman who is driven to distraction by a beautiful girl. Dir. Bernard B. Ray.

Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane’s family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws. Later she suspects him ot being in love with another woman. Disgusted with civilization Tarzan returns to the jungle, followed by Jane who learns she was wrong.

Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings. An engineer undertakes a personal crusade to save important equipment from Nazis.

A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander and Owen Moore.

Teen idol Paul Anka plays Craig Fowler, the troubled son of dysfunctional parents Jackie and Jay Fowler (Ruth Roman and Alex Nicol). When Jay loses his job as a aircraft mechanic, he goes on a drinking binge to end all, passing out on the floor in front of his bored and disappointed wife. Meanwhile, across the back fence, Betty Lowell (Carole Mathews) confronts her philandering playboy husband Gareth (Jack Cassidy) about his extracurricular activities at work – activities which she has conveniently rationalized, as his success has made them the envy of their neighbors. While the parents fight, Craig and Betty’s daughter Eileen (Gigi Perreau) indulge in a growing interest in each other – but what role models do they have for “normal” behavior? And how long can Craig hide his dark secret: a compulsion which drives him to prowl the neighborhood’s quiet streets at night and peep in windows? Cast members Jack Cassidy and [...]

Drifter is suspected in a series of murders, but while he is in jail, the real killers plot to take their revenge on the community.. Dir. Alan LeMay

A teenager tries to win the girl of his dreams with the hottest van in town in this ’70s sex comedy. Bobby (Stuart Goetz) has just graduated from high school, but he’s too preoccupied with girls to think much about his future. Bobby hasn’t had much luck with the ladies, and he’s convinced it’s because of his lack of cool wheels, so after months of slaving at a car wash owned by Andy (Danny DeVito), he blows the money he’d been saving for college on a down payment on his dream machine: a canary yellow custom Dodge van, a bachelor pad on wheels complete with mirrored ceiling, 8-track stereo, television monitors, and (natch) a waterbed. Bobby turns his attentions to class hottie Sally (Connie Lisa Marie), who happens to be dating ill-tempered bully Dugan (Steve Oliver), while his buddy Jack urges him to date the more available Sue (Marcie Barkin), who’s friends with his girlfriend, [...]

Mother Riley crosses paths with a crazed scientist trying to take over the world with a giant robot.