Author Archive: Retro

Ex-RAF pilot goes to psychiatrist after he crashes in Burma; tense and well-performed British melodrama.

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

Female murder victims are found with their right fingers missing, and it’s up to Sherlock Holmes to find a motive behind these seemingly random acts of violence. Based on the story “The Adventure of the Empty House” by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dir. Roy William Neill

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas

A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima’s ever winning car, but does that really work?

Rebellious teen joins a street gang which subsequently beats a black man to death, and when his sister is knifed by a rival gang, he reconsiders his violent actions. Dir. Vernon Sewell

A history of modern dance – Zula to Ballroom

A car plunging over a cliff kills its two occupants identified as newspaperman Lewis Forrester and actress Alison Ford (Terry Moore). Surviving Lewis are his two brothers, Tim (Robert Beatty), a portrait painter, and Dave (William Sylvester), a pilot. Scotland Yard discovers that Lewis’ death was engineered by a gang of international diamond smugglers he was about to expose. Before he died, he had sent someone in London a post card with a sketch of a woman’s hand holding a Chianti bottle. Alison’s father, John Smith (Henry Oscar) commissions Tim to paint her portrait from a photograph. While Tim is out, the supposedly-dead Alison enters his studio, but flees when she finds the body of Jill Stewart (Josephine Griffin), Tim’s favorite model. Scotland Yard Inspector Colby (Geoffrey Kene) suspects Tim because whatever alibi evidence Tim presents vanishes before the Inspector can confirm it. Reg Dorking (William Lucas), a used-car dealer tries to blackmail Tim, offering [...]