Author Archive: Retro

Group of pals drink their way from one bar to the next, keeping one step ahead of the police, who are trying to break up the party. Ingrid Bergman?s film debut. English subtitles.

When Judge falls ill, best-buddy Burns elects to barter her own body to get the needed cash to help her friend.

Disguised at first as a football picture, things turn turgid almost from the start. Older woman infatuates college boy and everything goes to hell until the tepid ending. Johnny Mack Brown brings a sincerity to his part. After he left MGM in 1931 Brown worked in several roles for several Poverty Row or “B” units of Universal and Paramount and others before hitting his stride a popular western star. The female leads Jeanette Loff and Roberta Gale are awful and they would be out of pictures in short time. I mean pathetic.

Alfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo’s wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.

Paroled bank robber is framed for murder after trying to protect his friend’s land.

Refeuling station in the middle of the Atlantic is threatened. GERMAN LANGUAGE ONLY.

Little-known version of the “Bounty Mutiny” features Flynn’s film debut. Flynn got the part when footage of the Sepik River headhunters he shot for a scientist was seen by Australian movie-maker Chauvel. Written and Produced by Charles Chauvel. Dir. Charles Chauvel