Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Zenobia (1939) Gordon Douglas, Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Comedy
A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant. Read More »
Cockfighter (1974) Monte Hellman, Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton
Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. Read More »
The Matrimonial Bed (1930) Michael Curtiz, Frank Fay, James Gleason, Lilyan Tashman, Comedy, Romance
It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Adolphe Noblet who died in a train wreck. Read More »
Shoot Out (1971) Henry Hathaway, Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons, Western
Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 8 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Read More »
Mackennas Gold (1969) J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Adventure, Romance, Western
The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. Read More »
Flaxy Martin (1949) Richard L. Bare, Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Unscrupulous showgirl Flaxy Martin involves young attorney Walter Colby with mobster Hap Richie. Read More »
La terre (1921) André Antoine, Armand Bour, René Alexandre, Germaine Rouer, Drama
As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Read More »
Destination Murder (1950) Edward L. Cahn, Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Laura Mansfield’s father is killed, apparently by a telegraphic messenger. She spots Jackie Wales in a police lineup, but can’t identify him positively. Read More »
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »
Night Passage (1957) James Neilson, James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
The workers on the railroad haven’t been paid in several months, that’s because Whitey and his gang, including fast-shooting, dangerous Read More »
Limbo (1999) John Sayles, David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Vanessa Martinez, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Limbo tells the story of people trying to reinvent themselves in the Southeastern islands of Alaska. Read More »
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) Jean-Pierre Melville, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Drama
In a snowball fight between schoolboys the handsome Dargelos hits the chest of Paul, who drops unconscious to the ground. Read More »
Strange Interlude (1932) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Drama
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak – and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Read More »
Escape (1940) Mervyn LeRoy, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Drama
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape. Read More »