Author Archive: Retro

Young couple go against their parents’ wishes and encounter one problem after another as they search for a place to live in post-WWII Rome. English subtitles. Dir. Vittorio De Sica.

After her father’s death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants’ riot. She is then helped by Raynal who falls in love with her but is too shy to tell her. Sheltered by his father, Virginia is robbed by her uncle of the money Raynal gave her to pay the bill in the village. He and his son then start to consider her a thief.

Tough-talking businesswoman falls in love with and marries an employee who is fifteen years younger than her. Problems arise when her cute, younger sister arrives on the scene. UNCUT BRITISH PRINT NEVER SHOWN IN USA! Dir. Ingmar Bergman.

Explorer leads an expedition through the jungle in search of plants which may hold a newly discovered cure for arthritis and gout. English Dubbed. Dir. Roberto Gavald?n

Scientist studying cosmic rays in a mountain laboratory discovers a radioactive cloud which hovers over a particular mountain. He links this cloud to an alarming number of mountain-climbing “accidents” by one piece of evidence: He’s seen it before…when the cloud starts to move, the killing will begin again…Written by Jimmy Sangster from the BBC serial “The Trollenberg Terror”. Dir. Quentin Lawrence