Author Archive: Retro

Woman and her lover conspire to murder her rich husband, but he survives, assumes another name and finds a humble new life with a good woman, until his past catches up to him. Produced by Leo C. Popkin. Dir. Arthur Lubin

A former gangster who joined the army during World War II and became a hero is now leading a respectable life, out of the rackets. However, when he is called before a grand jury probing organized crime activities, his former colleagues in the mob are afraid he’ll spill the beans, and prepare to take measures to ensure that he doesn’t.

Soviet spy Vera Marova impersonates a dead German spy, working with Free French agents to send radio messages to Moscow

Scientist studying cosmic rays in a mountain laboratory discovers a radioactive cloud which hovers over a particular mountain. He links this cloud to an alarming number of mountain-climbing “accidents” by one piece of evidence: He’s seen it before…when the cloud starts to move, the killing will begin again…Written by Jimmy Sangster from the BBC serial “The Trollenberg Terror”. Dir. Quentin Lawrence

Two brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.

A hardened journalist reporting on the Beirut conflict, allows himself to become involved with the events he’s covering. When he falls in love with a nurse who’s aiding the rebel forces, he jeopardizes his life and the lives of hundreds of others

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.

A young woman arrives at her grandmother’s house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Aliens are thought to be the captors when sky-divers begin vanishing in mid-air. AKA: BODY STEALERS