Author Archive: Retro

The lives of several residents of a ‘Women Only’ hotel are examined. English subtitles.

Bored heiress gets involved with newsreel reporter and finds adventure as he chases down stories of escaped prisoners and a crooked horse race. Dir. Jean Renoir.

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.