Author Archive: Retro

British Sexploitation/Sex Comedy. Lord Wingate, aquitted after appearing in court for fraud, starts up a ‘finishing school’ to teach girls how to extract money from rich men, in return for a percentage of their gains. He enlists the help of the Duchess of Burwood (Alcoholic Aristocrat played by Rose Alba) as a teacher and Hector (Cockney Geezer played by Nosher Powell) as fitness instructor. A probation officer friend supplies the first batch of pupils fresh from Holloway prison via a clapped out old mini bus. Suspicious neighbours and police together with newspaper reports naming the prison girls now hobnobbing in high society results in a raid and new court appearance for Lord Wingate. The Judge sentences him but plots to start up his own ‘school for sex’.

Untamed maidens capture their mates! On the tropical island of Wongo, a tribe of beautiful women discover that the other side of the island is inhabited by a tribe of handsome men.

Rambling University is in danger of losing its best football players to a rival team, until Rambling’s promiscuous young cheerleaders come to the rescue with their feminine charms and get members from the opposing team to sign with Rambling.

American reporter doing a story on Swedish nightlife gets involved with a drug-addicted nightclub singer.

Man and Woman Dance Underwater, then Two topless women dance with him underwater, ballet like dance

Sexy Woman demonstrates fishing technique, baiting, lots of double entendres. She strips to demonstrate how to skin and fry a fish.

Exploitation auteur Dwain Esper directed this hare-brained expos? on the perils of drug addiction. William Davis (Harry Cording) is a young doctor eager to establish his practice when he makes the mistake of striking up a friendship with wily Asian Gee Wu (J. Stuart Blackton Jr.). Gee Wu introduces William to one of his favorite pastimes, opium, and it isn’t long before William is a hopeless addict. As his habit grows, William’s wife (Joan Dix) becomes increasingly alarmed and persuades him to get medical help. However, quacks foolishly swap William’s opium habit for a prescribed dependence on heroin, leading the hapless medico back where he started. Like most of Esper’s films, The Narcotic was scripted by Hildegarde Stadie, who happened to be Esper’s wife; she supposedly based the story on her uncle’s own unfortunate experience with opiates.

The lives of all who are involved with the evil weed are inevitably shattered. Depression era youths experience bizzare frightening side effects and terrible trajedies. One youngster becomes so addicted to the killer weed that a judge orders him to be committed for life to a mental hospital! Dr. Carroll advises us to not incur the same tragedy. Infamous camp classic.

Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends.” They plunge into degradation after experimentation with the white powder of evil.