Author Archive: Retro

Paul and Gabrielle, a young married couple, take in their neighbor’s teenage daughter, Felicia, for a few weeks in the summer. It isn’t long before the precocious and seductive Felicia sets her sights on the two of them.

A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe’s earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.

A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he’s granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who’s trying to take over the kingdom.

Juliette (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, Valmont (Gérard Philipe), are an attractive, much-gossiped-about couple who help one another find lovers on the side in order to keep their own relationship interesting. Neither Juliette nor Valmont has ever taken these dalliances seriously, until Juliette’s newest beau ditches her for the chaste Cecile (Jeanne Valerie). Scorned, Juliette enlists Valmont to seduce Cecile and ruin her good name, but the plan results in betrayal and violence.

Juliette (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, Valmont (Gérard Philipe), are an attractive, much-gossiped-about couple who help one another find lovers on the side in order to keep their own relationship interesting. Neither Juliette nor Valmont has ever taken these dalliances seriously, until Juliette’s newest beau ditches her for the chaste Cecile (Jeanne Valerie). Scorned, Juliette enlists Valmont to seduce Cecile and ruin her good name, but the plan results in betrayal and violence.

Spectacular medieval adventure with a count’s son plotting revenge for his father’s death. Disguising himself as the mysterious “Black Archer”, he wins the day after plenty of rousing swordplay and swashbuckling.

Beautiful but poor shopgirl joins a dance troupe and inspires patronage by dancing the Mambo. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille.

Bank robber’s plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

As he is about to retire, a police officer discovers that his daughter is mixed up with a criminal gang and is about to go to prison for a crime she didn’t commit. Against his better judgment, he comes up with a plan to keep her from going to prison.