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Author Archives: rarefilm
Miss Robin Hood (1952) John Guillermin, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy
Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children’s’ comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor crime. Read More »
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) John Krish, Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man’s wife. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
Executioners from Shaolin (1977) Chia-Liang Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong
A couple unite – she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy’s father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Read More »
Dirty Ho (1976) Chia-Liang Liu, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo
Prince Wang is the 11th prince of Manchuria and an excellent martial artist, but prefers not to draw attention to himself and keeps a low profile Read More »
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Lowell Sherman, Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine Read More »
The Inugamis (2006) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »
Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) John Sturges, William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe
A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business Read More »
The Crusades (1935) Cecil B. DeMille, Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith
The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France Read More »
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) Henry Hathaway, Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans. Read More »
Death Car on the Freeway (1979) Hal Needham, Shelley Hack, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves
A woman is badly shaken when she is run off the freeway and nearly killed by a crazy van-driver. Read More »
Women Without Names (1950) Géza von Radványi, Simone Simon, Vivi Gioi, Françoise Rosay
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Read More »
Navy Wife (1935) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell
Hawaiian naval nurse Trevor weds widowed officer Bellamy partly because he has a crippled daughter. Read More »
Betrayed (1988) Costa-Gavras, Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard
Following the murder of a radio personality in Chicago, all evidence of the crime points to a white supremacist group from Iowa. Read More »