Author Archive: Retro

This action adventure features the skill of one amazing hero.

A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance. The movie was made by editing some 1947 acting into footage from a 1927 silent serial, Perils of the Jungle, starring Frank Merrill the fifth screen Tarzan.

Life at a 1950s women’s maximum security prison where the warden and the guards are as brutal as the inmates.

Federally funded propaganda film unintentionally riotous fun. Jack Webb narrates the tale of an ordinary American town and its life as a Communist satellite, with everyone becoming emotionless automations. AKA The Commies Are Coming, the Commies Are Coming.

Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the mind of would-be rapists

The aging Ahab, king of Israel, comes under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her pagan idols to Israel angers God, who decides to wreak vengeance on Israel.

Because of his parent’s neglect, a basically good-hearted kid joins the mob and commits murder. Written by Harry L. Fraser. Dir. Sam Newfield

Film warns of the consequences of certain girls who “go to far”! Raise your daughters right! Dir. John Noble

A young female newspaper reporter is assigned by her editor to investigate the seamier side of Hollywood.