Author Archive: Retro

A doctor’s ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.

Mr. Richard Carling is found dead in his home with a house full of suspects.

A group of impecunious Brits are stranded in a Stockholm hotel.

Rich, disdainful Greene family gathers yearly at creepy ancestral castle to discuss will. One by one, they meet untimely demises during current year’s gathering under mysterious circumstances.

Nightclub singer ‘the Canary’ blackmails acquaintances, ends up murdered. Only witness also killed. Detective Philo Vance investigates to uncover her killer among numerous suspects she had exploited.

A young photographer (Eric Linden) looks for news with his sob-sister friend (Boots Mallory).

A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul; she and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

The hippie underground newspaper is in financial trouble and might be bought by a big time publisher. The in-fighting, bickering, jealousies and bed hopping by the young, idealistic staff make up the main, simple plot of the film but the cast and the sharp script make it a pleasure to watch. The film is CHOCK FULL of some of the best, young American actors doing some of their earliest film work: Jeff Goldblum is hystercial as the constantly stoned music critic who is always dead broke, Bruno Kirby (pre-Godfather II, When Harry Met Sally) is almost unrecognizable, pre- L.A. Law Jill Eikenberry, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Morton (Terminator II, Lone Star, City of Hope), a very young pre-TAXI Marilu Henner as a stripper and TV’s 7th Heaven, Stephen Collins who plays a real jerk in the film