Author Archive: Retro

The owner of beatnik coffeehouse is the man with the plan: he drafts his loser buddies into a million-dollar armored car robbery. Dir. Gene Fowler

Teenage hoodlum goes on a shooting spree, picks up some chicks and takes it on the lam. The whole entourage winds up at a farmhouse, where they hide out and hold a family hostage. Produced by Sam Katzman. Dir. Fred Sears

A young singer’s chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.

A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.

Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off unpromisingly, as juvenile justice official Flora Robson tries to keep a would-be female felon on the straight-and-narrow, telling the cautionary tale of Gwen Rawlings (Jean Kent). A victim of an unhappy home and her own stupidity, Rawlings leaves home and, with help from her sleazy new neighbor Jimmy Rosso (Peter Glenville, the future director), gets a job as a hat-check girl at a club run by Max Vine (Herbert Lom). But Jimmy’s jealousy soon gets him fired, and leaves him aiming for revenge on Max and Gwen. Despite the best efforts of Michael Farrell (Dennis Price), the one truly decent man she’s ever met, Jimmy achieves his goal and Gwen is sent to a reformatory. It is there that she’s truly corrupted by being locked up with more seasoned juvenile (and not [...]

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