Author Archive: Retro

Bond toils in a boys’ school in Yorkshire where he has been apprenticed by his no-good uncle. Conditions at the school are appalling, so Bond and another student escape, join a traveling theatrical troupe, and enjoy a series of adventures.

Two separate episodes that have in common the door that separates good from evil.

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife’s lover.

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife’s lover.

In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation. TV Movie.

An ex-vaudeville actor is the assistant to a doctor with Frankenstein aspirations. After murdering the doctor, the would-be actor finds it necessary to assume the identity of the dead physician. Edgar Allen Poe’s THE BLACK CAT is written into the storyline. All those nasty things people really wanted to see in the deadening 1930s: child birth, heroin addiction, eyeballs popping out of cats’ heads.

Country star Johnny Cash stars in this tale of a kidnapper who takes a housewife hostage and demands a ransom from her wealthy husband. Also known as DOOR TO DOOR MANIAC, which is what the film was originally billed as in 1965.

Street-smart chorus girl poses as a socialite who doesn’t exist. Dir. Anthony Kimmins

Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends.” They plunge into degradation after experimentation with the white powder of evil.