Author Archive: Retro

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

Police struggle to stem the tide of teenage drug addiction in this vintage exploitation drama, which combines the procedural style of Dragnet with the hopped-up hipster undertow of The Cool and the Crazy. Lieutenant Lacey (Paul Kelly), a police detective who heads up the narcotics squad, has been a busy man since dope dealers began targeting the students at a local high school. Coach Bettger (Regis Toomey) begins to suspect something is amiss when one-time star athlete Ray Bowman first loses interest in sports, and then disappears. Bettger turns to the police, who interview Ray’s aunt, who has been taking care of the boy since the breakup of his parents. While the aunt has a hard time believing Ray is up to anything dangerous, she discovers how wrong she is when Ray turns up dead after running up a debt with Jimmy, a 21-year-old pusher who delivers fatal “hot shots” to customers who can’t pay [...]

Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins “The Heads,” an outlawbiker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalistAnn when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comesto her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in witha fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann’s admiring eye.