Author Archive: Retro

A newspaper reporter investigates a strange cult living in the American Southwest who worship pain. Supposedly based on a fact. Actual footage of Penitentes – a sect of Catholic religious fanatics who engage in self-flagellation

A newspaper reporter investigates a strange cult living in the American Southwest who worship pain. Supposedly based on a fact. Actual footage of Penitentes – a sect of Catholic religious fanatics who engage in self-flagellation

Hercules travels to Atlantis to rescue his son and his friend, whom he finds have been captured by an evil queen who has discovered a source of power which rivals even Hercules! Written by Vittorio Cottafavi. English dubbed. Dir. Vittorio Cottafavi

The US marine corps must battle a would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.

A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.

Joe O’Hara, a hard fighter, wants the championship title for the money to finance the concert pianist career of his brother Mike, who also could be a good fighter. When Joe fights the title bout someone tells his opponent, Tiger Johnson, that one of his eyes is bad and Johnson works on it until Joe loses the fight and his eyesight. Mike is enraged and starts training for the ring. He works himself up to the title bout with Tiger Johnson.

An auditor comes into possession of an envelope containing prints and drawings which the British government is anxious to obtain and also a great many other people, all of whom try to get them from him by any means. He escapes many of the traps set for him by the villains, but is finally captured and is tied to an operating table where the gang leader is set to do some scalpel work on him.

From her hospital bed a woman recounts her life as a “plain Jane” while awaiting plastic surgeries for the injuries she has sustained in an automobile accident.

Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, “Dude” Hanford, and “Trigger” Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy, in their fight to retain control of Larry’s rich ore mine. “Doc” Hardy, an old friend of Wade’s, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler, the scheming owner of “The Brimstone News”, from his efforts to wrest control of Munro’s property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe, so they also can get in on the fray against the Munro, Kentucky, and friends.