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Author Archives: rarefilm
Bowery to Bagdad (1955) Edward Bernds, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers. Read More »
Pentimento (1979) Frans Zwartjes, Helen Hedy, Moniek Toebosch, Trix Zwartjes
Scientists subjected women to dark and inhuman experiments, in which sexuality and cruelty are fused together. Read More »
3:10 to Yuma (1957) Delmer Daves, Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr
In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding Read More »
The Wild Country (1970) Robert Totten, Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Read More »
Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979) John Woo, Pai Wei, Damian Lau, Kong Lau
A son tries to avenge his father, and gets two sword fighters to help him. Read More »
Carnival (1935) Walter Lang, Lee Tracy, Sally Eilers, Jimmy Durante
“Chick” Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names “Poochy.” Read More »
Tranquille donne di campagna (1980) Claudio Giorgi, Silvia Dionisio, Philippe Leroy, Carmen Scarpitta
In una tenuta della campagna padana ai tempi del fascismo vivono: Guido Maldini, che l’amministra per conto di sua cugina Floriana, ex attrice d’operetta, e costei; Read More »
Too Young to Kiss (1951) Robert Z. Leonard, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Countdown to Doomsday (1966) Marcello Baldi, George Ardisson, Pascale Audret, Christa Linder
NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas. Read More »
Love Letters (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant
France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson Read More »
The Music of Chance (1993) Philip Haas, James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh
Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Read More »
La notte dell’alta marea (1977) Luigi Scattini, Anthony Steel, Annie Belle, Hugo Pratt
Richard Butler is the director of a Montreal advertising agency. When he meets Dyanne, a young beautiful model, he falls in love. Read More »
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball
In heaven, showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Read More »