Author Archive: Retro

Richard Harrison, one of the most durable of the sword-and-sandal leading men of the 1960s, is top-billed in Hands of Death. The story concerns a gang of martial arts-savvy thieves. Whenever cornered by the authorities, the crooks dispense death and destruction with their bare hands. It’ll take a hero as well-versed in Kung Fu as the heavies to see that justice is done.

Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big city. When he gets to the city, he discovers his uncle is running a gang of young jewel thieves.

Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There’s tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?

Mexican mystery and melodrama film directed by the American filmmaker Albert Zugsmith. The film revolves around a doctor “who uses unorthodox methods to cure a drug-addicted family”