Author Archive: Retro

Hideko Takamine. An elementary schoolteacher grows angry and frustrated while watching her pupils’ lives ruined by war and poverty. (F)

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.

A phantom haunts a theater troupe.

Explores the modern day views and customs of the residents of Peru, with English narration.

British thriller about a family held hostage by an escaped convict.

Riviera socialite is really a smuggler posing as a undercover agent, but she meets up with a doctor who is posing as a detective. Written by Julien Duvivier. Dir. Julien Duvivier.

This movie is about a doctor who kidnaps people, couples who are having sex. He takes them to his mansion where they are being kept as prisoners. He injects his subjects with a substance to ‘enhance’ their sexual abilities. The curious doctor then forces the abducted people to have sex. While they are making love he drains a fluid from them. He needs this to prevent himself from being transformed into a monster. He gets his instructions from a talking brain.

American soldier falls in love with a major’s fiancee.