Author Archive: Retro

At the height of the Cold War, an East German refugee slips aboard an American military duty train leaving West Berlin, deep inside East Germany. The Russian and East German authorities stop the train and demand that the “criminal” be handed over to them. The young American officer in charge of the train doesn’t want to do it, but fears that he may have no choice in the matter. The movie is based on a true incident.

In this suspenseful espionage adventure, Yankee super-sleuth Lemmy Caution must investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of an important scientist. Caution’s search leads him to Europe where he learns that the scientist was not kidnapped. He is instead the secret leader of a spy ring.

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may–or may not–have amnesia.

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver’s wetsuit, using the city’s sewer tunnels to make his getaway. Inspector Wade of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case, and he begins to suspect that the Shark is tied in with a smuggling ring the authorities believe is run out of a dive on the Thames waterfront called The Mekka.

Moving drama of homeless children in London welfare Center and the efforts of young social worker to improve their worlds.

A new consultant at the hospital causes controversy by introducing a experimental modification to heart surgery.

Terry-Thomas, Alex Nicol, Honor Blackman. A man’s death of smallpox at London airport sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for the carrier. Nice performances and a good script. 35mm.

In the Mexican fishing village of Topolobampo, a man has his pride and a woman has her reputation. Pepe, a hothead jailed once for violence, is tested when a drunken sailor’s chance remark gets him doubting that his wife Magdalena’s child is his. After a six-year absence, gringo Jim Gatsby is in town with a scheme to make a lot of money using a depth reader to locate schools of shrimp: he’ll wait outside the limits of Mexican waters and shrimpers will bring him their catch. It’s illegal, but should be foolproof. The fishing scheme goes awry as Pepe’s jealousy consumes him. If adults think only of themselves, can a child’s innocence save anyone?

When gamblers who recently increased their life insurance begin dying, Scotland Yard.gets involved. When their chief inspector is murdered, they bring in a mysterious detective to solve the case.