Author Archive: Retro

Adam West stars in The Specialist as Jerry Bounds, an upright crusader standing up against the water company’s efforts to exploit a local lake. John Anderson plays his opponent, Pike Smith, who at the start of the film smashes the glass out of a door at Bounds’ law firm, to prove that “Nobody crosses Pike Smith and profits by it!”

Sexy hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get more than they bargained for when they hitch a ride with groovy hippie dude Chuck in his nifty mobile bus home. The trio get lost in the Florida Everglades following a fierce rain storm and embark on a startling spiritual journey of self-discovery.

Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultry and deceit. They share Edward’s wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package of jewels across the Canadian border, but the mission turns out to be deadly.

A bounty hunter takes in the son of a man he killed.

Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang – who terrorized the southeast in the 1920’s – also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.

Linda Gillen, John Neilson, Arthur Space College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she’s won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know where she’ll be, the lodge owners arrange her transport and she soon finds herself with two other young women as guests of a kindly old couple. The place is beautiful and the food is fantastic, but something just doesn’t seem right. One of the guests has suddenly vanished, and the hosts are certainly reluctant to have anyone poking around the meat locker. Still, the barbecued ribs are delicious, so what’s there to complain about?

Pete and Stick, two juvenile delinquents just thrown out of a biker gang, break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbor.

A murderer escapes from a chain gang, forcing his co-inmate to go along. The latter’s girlfriend helps, but gets raped by the aggressive prisoner. The desperate duo next invades the home of an older farmer and his teen-aged wife.

A sex-crimes specialist from New York travels to the Philippines to help his friend, a Manila homicide detective, solve a series of murders.