Author Archive: Retro

Teenager’s hypocritical father preaches the benefits of good driving, while constantly breaking the rules of the road. The kid grows up to be a reckless hot rodder, holding illegal drag races which result in death and destruction. Written by Crane Wilbur. Dir. Crane Wilbur

Police officer organizes supervised drag racing so the kids don’t get out of hand. Filmed in the San Fernando Valley with lots of footage of teenagers cruising around Northridge, North Hollywood, Van Nuys. Dir. Leslie H. Martinson

Johnny has a problem. He’s afraid of women. After being kissed and fainting in public, he decides to kill himself and bails out of an airplane. As luck would have it he lands on an island nudist colony soley inhabited by naked women.

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband’s ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

Roger Corman tale filmed in Hawaii of two brothers shipwrecked on an island inhabited by beautiful pearl diving women.

A throbbing tale of shackled youth! ) Marriage customs of the Ozarks. : Schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying young, underage girls. True love does win out when the young girl doesn’t have to marry the lecherous old man.Dir. Harry Revier

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor’s assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There’s the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to “cure” homosexual men by having nude women dance for them. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there

Suspicious Raphael Vojnar, a Moravian village judge, makes his young wife Barbara witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He tells Barbara that if he ever catches her with another man he will kill her. This is a certain indicator that the plot is about to thicken and the pot is about to boil. The next day, Barbara meets her old beau, Quirin, who is in town to help his old uncle Sima with the harvest. Vojnar recognizes Quirin as a man he had arrested years earlier. Vojnar, stirring the pot, makes an overnight trip out of town, and Quirin boldly breaks into Barbara’s bedroom, where, to the surprise of none, he is warmly received. The surprise comes the next day when old uncle Sima is found stabbed to death. Quirin can not account for his whereabouts without compromising Barbara and,even worse, he has lost [...]

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. Overly affectionate prisoners are forced underwater, while others are obliged to look on. Emanuelle finds an enemy in the deranged Albina, who “runs the prison.” For the pleasure of the warden, Emanuelle and Albina are forced to fight each other with knives. Bad becomes worse when four men awaiting execution escape and take over the prison. Gore flows like water.