Author Archive: Retro

Beery plays an evil seaman plotting to take control of the ship. Dir. Sam Newfield.

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a ‘brood sow,’ he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.

Goldie Hawn plays a naive American involved with an Italian executive. Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger. Cora: Aurore Clement. Omero: Renzo Montagnani. Also called “Lovers and Liars.” Mario Monicelli directed.

Two brothers join the Foreign Legion and fall for the same sexy nightclub singer, but must work together when they’re captured by an evil North African sheik. Dir. Hamilton MacFadden

British drama about singer’s rise.

The hero visits a town and meets a woman whose daughters were killed. He seeks the murderers, eventually encountering three men who he initially believes are the killers, though he learns otherwise.

Webster ventures into the northern wilderness in search of a missing prospecor friend.

Outspoken German pastor is thrown into a concentration camp when he takes a public stand against Nazi philosophies. Based on a true story. Dir. Roy Boulting

Cappy Ricks intentionally shipwrecks his family on a south sea island to remind them of what is really important in life.