Author Archive: Retro

A private eye from Harlem leaves town to join forces with a friend who’s fighting Florida drug dealers.

To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

A no-good Manhattan girl moves in on a Brooklyn gang. Using her obvious charms she gets the leader killed in a fight over her and then takes up with the victor and new head man. Then she starts pushing him to get out onto the streets to mix it with rival gangs

It’s as if Ed Wood had made a western! Now, you’d believe a bunch of gold prospectors out to swindle themselves a fortune, wouldn’t you? Well, would you believe a savage tribe of TOPLESS Indian princesses?

This U.S. Army film discusses security awareness and responsibilities in relation to overseas travel.

Filmed on/around 1965 and portrays a little boy “Mark” as he explores the Naval Academy

Footage of teen riots on Sunset – but they’re notable primarily for their dearth of riotousness. The coverage switches to the biker societies then emerging into their prime, and uses voiceover narrative from one of the bikers to provide a sort of home movie view of their travails. This bits worthwhile for its pathetic glimpse, even if it does recycle some footage of bikers public urination efforts once or twice more than we needed along the way. The film’s deskbound experts also offer only anaesthetic commentary, in effect trying to use a ‘white coater’ approach to a sociological expose

A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
Christopher Walken is an American soldier in Germany who is sent to a hospital for bizarre treatments for violent outbursts. Ralph Meeker also stars in this intense psychological thriller.