Author Archive: Retro

Moving drama of homeless children in London welfare Center and the efforts of young social worker to improve their worlds.

A new consultant at the hospital causes controversy by introducing a experimental modification to heart surgery.

Terry-Thomas, Alex Nicol, Honor Blackman. A man’s death of smallpox at London airport sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for the carrier. Nice performances and a good script. 35mm.

In the Mexican fishing village of Topolobampo, a man has his pride and a woman has her reputation. Pepe, a hothead jailed once for violence, is tested when a drunken sailor’s chance remark gets him doubting that his wife Magdalena’s child is his. After a six-year absence, gringo Jim Gatsby is in town with a scheme to make a lot of money using a depth reader to locate schools of shrimp: he’ll wait outside the limits of Mexican waters and shrimpers will bring him their catch. It’s illegal, but should be foolproof. The fishing scheme goes awry as Pepe’s jealousy consumes him. If adults think only of themselves, can a child’s innocence save anyone?

When gamblers who recently increased their life insurance begin dying, Scotland Yard.gets involved. When their chief inspector is murdered, they bring in a mysterious detective to solve the case.

French film w/English sub-titles. A fabric cutter at a men’s clothier dreams of designing women’s dresses.

Young actress is knocked unconscious during the Blitz and dreams she is Nell Gwyn, Queen Victoria and her own mother, before she wakes to face her personal problems. COLOR.

Two thieves rob a drug store and decide to hide out in a porn shop.