The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tentacles (1977) Ovidio G. Assonitis, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. Read More »
The Blue Veil (1951) Curtis Bernhardt, Busby Berkeley, Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell
Louise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children’s nurse. Read More »
Miss Robin Crusoe (1954) Eugene Frenke, Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes
A shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday. Read More »
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
In 1807, Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship the HMS Lydia on a perilous voyage around Cape Horn and into the Pacific. Read More »
Remains to Be Seen (1953) Don Weis, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern
June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »
That Brennan Girl (1946) Alfred Santell, James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. Read More »
Ouanga (1936) George Terwilliger, Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage. Read More »
Gotham (1988) Lloyd Fonvielle, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Colin Bruce
Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Read More »
The Crimson Pirate (1952) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. Read More »
Confidentially Connie (1953) Edward Buzzell, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »
Way of Youth (1959) Michel Boisrond, Françoise Arnoul, Bourvil, Lino Ventura
The film is an often light-hearted look at the not-so-glorious side of the WW II Occupation of France: black market, war profiteers cracking open bottles of Champagne while many Parisians are suffering substantial deprivation. Read More »
She Couldnt Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
As usual with most of the RKO films from this era “presented” by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, Read More »
True to the Navy (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green
While sailors are know far and wide as having a girl in every port, all of the sailors in the Pacific Fleet appear to have the same girl when in their home-port of San Diego Read More »
The Story of Three Loves (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. Read More »