Author Archive: Retro

Two of Asia’s biggest martial arts stars team up in this excellent offering from Korea. Two sons swear to avenge their father’s murder. They set off in search of the last man to see him alive.

Northern Kick expert John Liu investigates antique smugglers in Canton. Simultaneously, another Strike Rock Fist heir challenges John to a deadly duel. Their paths converge as they confront the smuggling gang and each other.

A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee, this movie traces his college life, his marriage to Linda Lee, his relationship with his master, and his untimely death.

The film opens with a pre-fame Bruce Lee delivering newspapers in Seattle, Washington. We then see Lee competing in various martial arts tournaments and eventually landing a role on the television show The Green Hornet. He also gets married, and has to fight a whole lot of challengers.

A group of thieves takes over a village. The main character is the blacksmith of the village, nicknamed ‘Dumb Ox”. He has a criminal record as a thief but has served his time and now earns an honest living. He is first accused by the citizens of the village, but eventually he finds out the true criminals and challenges them.

Cchronicles the first 50 years of flight, from the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 to 1953. It includes interviews with an original mechanic who worked in their bicycle shop and a wide range of other pioneers such as Frank Long, Igor Sikorsky, Glen Martin, Alan Lockheed, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, LeRoy Grumman, Robert Gross Connie and Wellwood Beel.

Near Gordontown, Joe Gordon and his sister Judy, whose father Paul Gordon is a wealthy banker and rancher who owns most of the town, are shot at by two outlaws, but are rescued by U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown, who is riding to Gordontown to visit his old friend, retired Marshal Dusty Dekker. Jim Laren arrives in town with plans of taking over the Gordon holdings and the town. Laren kills the elder Gordon, and has Annie Driscoll, through a ruse innocently involving Dusty, show up posing as Gordon’s wife who deserted him 18 years ago. Johnny, with the aid of Sheriff Alibi, proves that Annie isn’t the real Mrs. Gordon and clears his friend Dusty of the charge of killing Gordon.

Laurel and Hardy’s bid for a quiet evening of checkers and pool is constantly interrupted by their squabbling brats, little Ollie and little Stanley

Ollie can’t find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.