Author Archive: Retro

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them is a 1954 British war film starring Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Steel. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and is based on the 1953 novel by John Harris, about a North Sea rescue during the Second World War. The musical soundtrack is by composer Malcolm Arnold. The film title is the motto of the Royal Air Force’s Air Sea Rescue Service

A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.

Faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic with Hicks as the Christmas-hating miser. Dir. Henry Edwards

A stripper/fortune teller uses a magical Haitian amulet to keep young, and in so doing forces others to kill for her.

Through blood-spatterd annals of the Dark Ages walk the undead.

In 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor’s ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.

Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.