Author Archive: Retro

Outrageous, straightforward educational shorts from the 1950’s and 1960’s, featuring “Joan Avoids Cold”, “Candy Is Healthy,” “Dating Do’s and Don’ts” and “Fun with Speech Songs.”

Now, for the first time, through the miracle of modern science, it can be revealed – okay, in 1953 it was a big deal… another one of those wild “road show” pictures actually screened for segregated male/female audiences due to their racy nature.

Married couple’s morals begin to deteriorate when they try to have a baby through artificial insemination. Dir. W. Merle Connell

A newspaper publisher’s daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their “fence” gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.

Four students open a bogus sex clinic for cheap thrills and then are amazed to see it blossom into a profitable business.

World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It’s fortified and hard to attack, so a creative, cynical major gets the assignment to figure something else. With the help of Paco, a Filipino guerrilla leader, the major devises a plan to put four women assassins among the prostitutes. He must recruit and train them, convince his general that an unarmed woman can best a man, and get them on the island. The rest is up to them. An imprisoned killer, a nurse with a fatal disease, a chippie on the lamb from the mob, and a Filipina whom the Japanese assaulted are his team. Can they do it?

An ex-vaudeville actor is the assistant to a doctor with Frankenstein aspirations. After murdering the doctor, the would-be actor finds it necessary to assume the identity of the dead physician. Edgar Allen Poe’s THE BLACK CAT is written into the storyline. All those nasty things people really wanted to see in the deadening 1930s: child birth, heroin addiction, eyeballs popping out of cats’ heads.

Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she’s disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.

A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.