Author Archive: Retro

Cryano, master of sword and poetry is doomed to live with a face of ugliness. He uses the voice of his rival to deliver his message of love to the woman he admires. Famous story of the poetic cavalier who, because of a substantial nasal endowment, finds himself too ugly to be loved. Dir. Michael Gordon. Academy award for Ferrer’s performance.

A military intelligence spy is murdered in a library for the blind.

Guy Stockwell (brother of Dean) portrays the title character, orphaned son of the original Zorro (Dad’s been rotting in jail for the last 15 years, and doesn’t know that his abandoned son has taken up the mantle of “Defender of the oppressed”). Zorro defends the local peasantry from the evil governor’s oppression, re-discovers his real father is jail and frees him and sends the corrupt Governor and his cronies to the hoosegow in the film’s brief running time. He get’s the girl, too!

Father & grandson go moose hunting and their campsite & equipment catch fire.

When Milano police lieutenant Giorga’s chief is murdered by an organized crime ring, he vows to avenge his boss’s death. Going undercover to continue the chief’s investigation, he plans to take over a pimping outfit and then proceed to beat up enough low-level thugs until the big guys in the crime ring take notice of him, letting him get close enough to uncover their secrets. Should this unorthodox method actually work, he still must take down the entire organization single-handedly.

The captain of a ship lets a woman ride aboardis ship to an island to see her boyfriend.

Nellie Nolan works at the notions counter of a big department store, and Tom Clancy is in the hardware department of the same establishment. But both of their souls are filled with ambitions and aspirations not to be governed by even the routine of such existence. Nellie has saved a whole hundred dollars and, in a fit of June madness, decides to spend it all for one week of glorious pretense at a Maine summer resort, assuming the role of a lady of fashion and tasting for once the joys of wealth. Tom is impressed with the same newspaper story which has caught Nellie’s eye, and he goes to the same resort, posing as a rich young man from Newport. The two young people meet each other, each believing the other belongs to an entirely different sphere of life, and the succeeding events make it possible for Tom to become a hero in the eyes [...]

In this western, an irresistible singer woos many a woman in the fast life of a western town.