Author Archive: Retro

Art teacher and detective plan to ensnare a maniac who has assaulted several young girls and killed two of them in the woods. When the identity of the madman is revealed, it is a shock. AKA: TOWER OF TERROR.

In this ironic French tale of tragedy and love, Laurent (Yves Montand), a world-weary ex-convict and prison-reform writer is coming back to the dreary town his old prison is in. To someone whose life is so imbued with violence, everything he sees seems like a threat. Indeed, the town appears to be populated solely by thugs and elderly people. The banked fires of his passion are awakened when he sees a perfectly normal looking professional woman (Katherine Ross) coming down the street. Soon afterward, his sense of danger fails him, for he is brutally beaten in a men’s restroom by a martial-artist nun. When he is taken for medical treatment, he discovers that the lovely woman he saw earlier is to be his doctor.

Father & son are shipwrecked and floating on a piece of debris. The father reflects on his life.

World War I,: German soldier meets girld in an occupied Belgian village and despite war they fall in love.

Young Danish boy, who inherits his father’s love of horses, kidnaps spirited Lippizan stallion before the school can return the animal to the dealer to be slaughtered.