Author Archive: Retro

In this fictionalized version of the silent film era superstar, Rudolph Valentino (Franco Nero), a young and impoverished Italian immigrant, is discovered as he’s robbing the house of screenwriter June Mathis (Suzanne Pleshette), a somewhat older woman who is already a film-world insider. After forgiving the young man, Mathis soon comes to recognize his star potential and leads him into the world of movies. Eventually, Valentino becomes the biggest male sex symbol of his time.

The Great American Tragedy is a melodrama about an aerospace engineer and his family who struggle to survive after he suddenly loses his job.

Erotic version of the classic fairy tale.

A true story which follows the investigation into the murder of a young woman who was fatally stabbed in plain view of neighbors who ignored her cries for help. AKA: THE WOMAN WHO CRIED MURDER.

A young woman is murdered in an alley. The crime is heard or seen by the residents of a nearby apartment building, but none of them did anything to help and they refuse to cooperate with the police during the investigation.

A coffeehouse singer is the object of a young man’s fancy…he pursues her endlessly in this 60s beatnik comedy.

It’s an erratic but funny, sincere flick about a pulp writer who falls in love with a much-younger schoolgirl. Early directorial effort by Richard Donner has expressive eyes and ears. Very well edited, with appealing scenes, lots of energy. Fine acting, especially by Bronson.

A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who testified against him at his trial. Robert Foxworth plays the police lieutenant assigned to protect them, and to catch the invisible strangler.

Anthropology students from Chicago travel to the Louisiana swamps in search of the creature that hides there.