Author Archive: Retro

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.

Crime, premarital sex and hard drugs are all part of a young girl’s downward spiral into moral corruption. She never should’ve had that first joint! Dir. Dwain Esper

Dir. Dwayne Vesper. See the truth about the smoke from hell! Weird orgies! Wild parties! Unleashed passions! Naive teenagers smoke marihuana, attend a beach party and take off their clothes. Naturally tragedy ensues; one girl drowns, another finds herself with child. Fine moral lesson for the whole family. Journalist goes undercover to expose a group of pot-smoking teenagers who lead nice young girls down the road to ruin. Written by Elmer Clifton. Dir. Elmer Clifton.

Young woman quickly realize that prostitution is a harsh reality.