Author Archive: Retro

If you listen to jazz, you will go to Hell, where the scorching fires of torment are mighty and endless.

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Numerous scenes of combat from World War I.

A Dutch boy and girl’s idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of Nazi-like mechanical men called “The Screwballs”,[1] who lay waste to everything they touch. The Screwballs are later destroyed and the boy and girl’s idyllic life resumes.

A documentary filmed aboard a German U-Boat during the First World War , featuring footage of the capture and sinking of cargo ships and a private schooner.

Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of the title–seven in all–are actually determined young British moderns who go into military service during World War II. In true “Army bomber crew” fashion, the film explores the widely varied backgrounds of the ladies involved, showing the events which led them to their patriotic commitment. As propaganda, Gentle Sex served its wartime purpose; as entertainment, it holds up reasonably well after five decades. The film was coproduced and codirected by actor Leslie Howard, who functions as narrator and (according to one source) can be glimpsed from behind in a couple of scenes.

This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world’s largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even when their countries are wartime enemies. These munitions works, in the interest of making money, manipulate wartime conditions to prolong wars.

This film describes communist propaganda methods, materials, and psychological warfare.