Author Archive: Retro

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together.

In this British adventure, two gentlemen are assigned to stop an impending revolt on the treacherous Khyber mountain pass in India. En route they are waylaid by an angry rebel band. The film is also titled Fury of the Khybers.

In this comedy/drama, a young American soldier desperately wants to lose his virginity before he’s shipped off to Vietnam. He meets a friendly young woman who appears willing to help him solve his “problem.” But there’s something she hasn’t told him …

An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

Documentary-like look at the young sun-king. English subtitles. COLOR. Dir. Roberto Rossellini.

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

Baron von Weser keeps a menagerie of carnivorous plants, but takes great care of one particular specimen.