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Author Archives: rarefilm
A Free Woman (1954) Vittorio Cottafavi, Françoise Christophe, Pierre Cressoy, Gino Cervi, Drama
Liana, a girl with a good family, is about to marry an engineer, but the meeting with the musician Gerardo makes her change her mind. Read More »
Hangover Square (1945) John Brahm, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Read More »
The Toy Wife (1938) Richard Thorpe, Luise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Drama, History, Romance
‘The toy wife’ or how to spoil your own life and the lives of others by being fickle and frivolous. Read More »
The Top of His Head (1989) Peter Mettler, Christie MacFadyen, Stephen Ouimette, David Fox, Drama, Romance
Augustus Victor is a young and successful satellite dish salesman who is only 3 sales away from his company’s most coveted sales award. Read More »
The First Deadly Sin (1980) Brian G. Hutton, Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes, Thriller
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Read More »
Blood Is Dry (1960) Yoshishige Yoshida, Keiji Sada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Shin’ichirô Mikami, Drama
An assurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. Read More »
Night World (1932) Hobart Henley, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, Drama
“Happy” MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers Read More »
Night Editor (1946) Henry Levin, William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
“Night Editor” was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the ‘inside story’ of some bit newspaper story Read More »
The Outsider (1983) Jacques Deray, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Carlos Sotto Mayor, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way. Read More »
Miranda (1948) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
A young married physician out on a fishing holiday ends up being saved by a mermaid, who intends to keep him her prisoner. Read More »
Escapade in Japan (1957) Arthur Lubin, Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell, Jon Provost, Adventure, Family
A plane on its way to Japan is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. Read More »
Four Mothers (1941) William Keighley, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, Drama, Romance
Adam Lemp and his four daughters (Ann, Thea, Kay, and Emma) find themselves in financial and emotional crises. Read More »
The Brute (1953) Luis Buñuel, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Drama
In the 50’s, in a poor community in Mexico, the landlord Andrés Cabrera wants to evict his tenants to demolish the buildings and sell the land by a large amount. Read More »
Hearts Divided (1936) Frank Borzage, Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. Read More »