Author Archive: Retro

English villagers buy a race horse and try to enter him in the Grand National. He wins local race by being slower than others.

During World War II, Polish partisans (Michael Rennie, David Knight) discover that the Nazis are secretly building a rocket.

This actioner is adapted from Hemingway’s story To Have and Have Not. It is about the captain helming a luxury cruise ship filled with narcotics.

Narrative of Anastasia in Germany.

A blacklisted airline pilot redeems himself by the way in which he handles a particularly dangerous flight.

This story depicts a detention camp for refugee women in the years just after World War II. Subtitled

Sandra searches for her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.

Hideko Takamine. An elementary schoolteacher grows angry and frustrated while watching her pupils’ lives ruined by war and poverty. (F)