Author Archive: Retro

Gang of crooks takes over a bank and must resist their instinctive inclinations.

An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires.

During World War II, J. Carrol Naish plays an optometrist who is really a Nazi spy. A book of his that he uses to decode a Nazi spy code is stolen from him while he was walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night. A Nazi agent who comes to meet him (John Carradine) is told of the theft and they team up to try to find the book.

The rising fortunes of a young girl who was saved from starvation in the streets.

Gang leader poses as a man of society.

Diplomat’s son thinks more of a gentle gardner then his own father, so dad has the rival framed and put in jail. Color.

Beery plays an evil seaman plotting to take control of the ship. Dir. Sam Newfield.

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a ‘brood sow,’ he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.

Goldie Hawn plays a naive American involved with an Italian executive. Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger. Cora: Aurore Clement. Omero: Renzo Montagnani. Also called “Lovers and Liars.” Mario Monicelli directed.