Author Archive: Retro

Successful stage play is transferred to the screen as two enemies go to any lengths to make sure that the marriage of their children never takes place. Watch for Audrey Hepburn, appearing here in her first feature.

The sixth in the “Road” series and the only one filmed in COLOR. The boys take jobs as divers in the South Seas. Watch for cameos by Martin and Lewis, Bogart, and Hepburn. Dir. Gordon Douglas.

Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local officials note the strange condition of the corpse, they fear that the germs will spread to epidemic proportions, and thus summon Reed to wrest control of the situation. At first facing opposition from rule-bound police captain Paul Douglas, Widmark is finally able to work hand-in-glove with Douglas in tracking down Palance and Mostel, who have themselves become plague carriers. Many of the actors in Panic in the Streets are local nonprofessionals, selected by director Elia Kazan because of their “rightness” within the framework of the story; the rest of the cast is peopled by such film veterans as Barbara Bel Geddes, Tommy Cook, Emile Meyer [...]

Based on a true story, a French submarine escapes from Nazi control and is given a top secret mission to contact the Algerian underground. Written by Georges P?clet, adapted from the log-book of the French Naval submarine “Casabianca”. Dir. Georges P?clet

Excellent film portraying a young mechanic’s downward spiral into self-destruction when he commits a minor criminal act. Dir. Irving Pichel

A sailor (Tommy Wonder) falls for a beautiful dancer (Doris Dowling) after going AWOL.

The Tallest Tree in our Forest is a 1977 documentary film directed and written by Gil Noble, about singer, actor and activist, Paul Robeson.

In this film, Lee J. Cobb stars as Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police lieutenant embroiled in a clandestine romance with married socialite Lois Frazer. When Lois kills her husband Howard, the flustered Cullen vows to cover for her. Things get sticky when Cullen is assigned to investigate the case.

Spanish film with English subtitles