Author Archive: Retro

High schooler Craig befriends Darby, who has terminal cancer, and learns about love and faith

Rival pearl divers clash in the Solomon Islands; natives mistake one for a sea god

Two naïve veterans join Mussolini’s blackshirts, gradually realizing the betrayal of fascist promises

Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love, so Armstrong tells him the story of Rita and himself.

For the last four years Margaret Holt has been helping her brother, assistant D.A. Victor Holt, to try to bring down the dope dealing Schemer Marko gang. Margaret kills Marko when he discovers she’s found evidence to use against him.

Comedy about Navy officer’s misadventures.

At the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them all conceivable provisions and their servants, and live in luxury in a mansion-like tent on the beach. After a short time, a group of uninvited friends arrive. They decimate the supplies and, in the course of a frenzied shooting party, kill every living animal on the island before leaving, bringing most of the servants with them. The only people left on the island are Liviu and his wife, their friend Larson, and one servant, Eusebio. The expected supplies do not arrive, the party has no way of communicating with the outside world, and passion is rife between the one woman and three men on the island

An elderly professor’s ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can’t seem to tear herself away from him.