Author Archive: Retro

Woman’s husband disappears on a jungle expedition, so she sets out after him, discovering that he has been captured by a savage tribe of Amazons. Produced by Edward F. Finney. Dir. Edward F. Finney

An island inhabited by female warriors fights to keep men away.

Camp classic about a group of Amazon women who hunt for their mates…literally. Dir. Gregg C. Tallas

Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with gambling debts; and, Davey, a rock musician on the cusp of success. Tara is a free spirit, faithful to each man in her own way, and so stunning that she dresses in a wig and ill-fitting uniform while she’s working so men won’t harass her constantly. The low-life whom Johnny is in debt to figures out a way to use Tara to help him execute a daring in-flight robbery. But will Tara stand by helplessly, or is superchick ready for action?

Emily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don’t, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their men and one woman, Bess Stanforth, is especially disturbed by her. When Dan, a man from Emily’s past, shows up and accuses her of having tried to kill, him Beth’s suspicions are further aroused, and they’re confirmed after Dan is found murdered in a local barn. Beth sets out to find out exactly who Emily is and to prove that she murdered Dan.

While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by aseven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, shereturns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them andthe rest of Palm Springs, California.

Bail bondsman tries to keep witness in drug trial alive to testify.

Dir. Roger Corman. Cult favorite Dick Miller stars as a sculptor who seems to bring make life-like plaster cats and people. Another Corman quickie made in 2 days.

Dir. Ed Wood. Classic bad film. Film noir Ed Wood style. First screen appearance of the legendary muscle man Steve Reeves, who was later immortalized in the “Hercules” pictures.