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Author Archives: rarefilm
Girls at Sea (1958) Gilbert Gunn, Guy Rolfe, Ronald Shiner, Michael Hordern
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate Read More »
Flesh Feast (1970) Brad F. Grinter, Veronica Lake, Phil Philbin, Doug Foster
Dr. Elaine Frederick has just perfected a way of using maggots to make her test subjects not only look younger, but actually become younger. Read More »
Adrénaline (1990) Anita Assal, Barthélémy Bompard, Clémentine Célarié, Franck Baruk, Alain Aithnard
“Adrénaline” proposes a string of short surrealist films presenting at various levels Read More »
On Dangerous Ground (1951) Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects Read More »
Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975) Norman Cohen, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard
Either you’ve got it or you haven’t – some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith) Read More »
The Winslow Boy (1948) Anthony Asquith, Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. Read More »
The Last Gunfight (1960) Kihachi Okamoto, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta, Yôko Tsukasa
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Read More »
Operation Haylift (1950) William Berke, Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown
Eighteen snowstorms in 27 days hit the Rocky Mountain and upper Great Plains states in December 1948-January 1949. Read More »
My First Wife (1984) Paul Cox, John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin
The film follows the dissolution of John and Helen’s marriage and the aftermath. Read More »
Lady Luck (1946) Edwin L. Marin, Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan
Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather, whose past gambling excesses have left her hating everything about the pastime. Read More »
Coney Island (1943) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend Read More »
Gambling Hell (1942) Jean Delannoy, Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol
A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger, sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den. Read More »
The Monk (1972) Adonis Kyrou, Franco Nero, Nathalie Delon, Nicol Williamson
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk’s robes. Read More »
Tonio Kroeger (1964) Rolf Thiele, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Werner Hinz
Tonio is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Read More »