Author Archive: Retro

In this melodramatic western, a California miner working near San Francisco strikes it rich in 1856. One day his friend, a newspaper editor, asks the miner to help him dispose of a corrupt politician. Trouble really begins when the politico’s girlfriend falls in love with the wealthy miner.

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Life of a famous writer is seen through flashbacks as he and his wife, while on safari, wait for a doctor to save his gangrenous leg. Color. Dir. Henry King.

The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.

In this thriller, a man has only a limited amount of time left to save his life.

Film classic of life at Rugby, an exclusive British boarding school for boys.

Four-part film on the impact a London train crash has on several passengers, focusing on the driver making his last run before a promotion, an actor leaving for America with a case containing the body of his cheating wife, an orphan girl helping a German POW escape, and a conductor composer who ends an affair because his current lover muffed a note at the last concert.

Fascinating sequel to Admiral Ushakov.