Author Archive: Retro

A teenage girl has trouble warming up to her new step-mother. Hanging out with Soho beatniks, the girl discovers her new mom may have lead a life of ill repute.

a reporter is writing an article about a nudist colony. He’s convinced by the man who runs the colony, Dr. King, and his beautiful secretary, Miss Prudence King (portrayed by Betty DeSalle) to experiences the pleasures of being nude. The film basically proves that nudists live just as ordinary people, with one obvious exception.

Swinging bachelor is invited to a party featuring “party girls”, and finds out potentially damaging information about his sweetheart. Produced by Victor Halperin. Dir. Victor Halperin

Police struggle to stem the tide of teenage drug addiction in this vintage exploitation drama, which combines the procedural style of Dragnet with the hopped-up hipster undertow of The Cool and the Crazy. Lieutenant Lacey (Paul Kelly), a police detective who heads up the narcotics squad, has been a busy man since dope dealers began targeting the students at a local high school. Coach Bettger (Regis Toomey) begins to suspect something is amiss when one-time star athlete Ray Bowman first loses interest in sports, and then disappears. Bettger turns to the police, who interview Ray’s aunt, who has been taking care of the boy since the breakup of his parents. While the aunt has a hard time believing Ray is up to anything dangerous, she discovers how wrong she is when Ray turns up dead after running up a debt with Jimmy, a 21-year-old pusher who delivers fatal “hot shots” to customers who can’t pay [...]

Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins “The Heads,” an outlawbiker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalistAnn when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comesto her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in witha fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann’s admiring eye.

Hot rodder feels betrayed when his best friend settles down with a possessive wife, so he kidnaps her and dusts off some cops on a high speed chase. Produced by Harvey Berman. Dir. Harvey Berman

Teenager’s hypocritical father preaches the benefits of good driving, while constantly breaking the rules of the road. The kid grows up to be a reckless hot rodder, holding illegal drag races which result in death and destruction. Written by Crane Wilbur. Dir. Crane Wilbur

Police officer organizes supervised drag racing so the kids don’t get out of hand. Filmed in the San Fernando Valley with lots of footage of teenagers cruising around Northridge, North Hollywood, Van Nuys. Dir. Leslie H. Martinson

Johnny has a problem. He’s afraid of women. After being kissed and fainting in public, he decides to kill himself and bails out of an airplane. As luck would have it he lands on an island nudist colony soley inhabited by naked women.