Author Archive: Retro

The made-for-TV The Class of 63 is set at a ten-year college reunion. Joan Hackett and Cliff Gorman play a married couple who eagerly anticipate meeting old friends at the event. But Gorman’s festive spirit dissipates when Hackett’s old boy friend James Brolin makes an appearance. In fact, Gorman harbors dreams of eliminating Brolin for keeps. First telecast March 14, 1973, Class of ’63 was filmed on location at Princeton University and USC.

The Sex manifesto of the free love generation.At the coed Harrad College the students experience a college policy of sexual freedom. The students are taught classes on the subject, and they experiment themselves in this very 70s production. Melanie Griffith, at age 14, appears as an extra.

A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig “Mr. Mumps” from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts (Pat Cardi) goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him – the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor (Mr. Griggs) & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff. In the end he gets the jock’s girlfriend for himself but his happiness is short-lived as the potion turns him into a monster hunted by the towns lame police Lieutenant – Bosman.

A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial expedition does.

A prist in a small western town makes a deal with a gunfighter to recover a huage treasure stolen from a church. Things heat up pronto when a gang of ruthless outlaws gets the same idea. This fast moving Spaghetti Western delivers plenty of action

Deep in the rural swamps of Texas the mad Dr. Simond Trent is conducting experiments on the local swamp people in an attempt to discover the secret of evolution. When a party of oil surveyors comes upon his isolated laboratory he decides to take the final step and turn one of them into a grotesque amphibious creature.