John Barrington escapes from an asylum for the criminally-insane and finds refuge on the ranch of turkey-raiser Ezra Thompson. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Four Wives (1939) Michael Curtiz, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Drama, Romance
Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Read More »
Captain from Castile (1947) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Adventure, Drama, History
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Read More »
G.P.U. (1942) Karl Ritter, Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar, Drama, Thriller, Action
Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Read More »
Knafayim Shvurot / Broken Wings (2002) Nir Bergman, Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, Nitai Gvirtz, Drama
The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ulman clan off course. Read More »
The Duke of West Point (1938) Alfred E. Green, Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Drama
Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Read More »
Points and Lines (1958) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Yamagata, Mieko Takamine, Mystery
A senior detective is determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide. Read More »
Before Dawn (1933) Irving Pichel, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Drama, Mystery
Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Read More »
Octaman (1971) Harry Essex, Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, Jeff Morrow, Sci-Fi, Horror
A scientific expedition in Mexico discovers several unusual baby octopus specimens. Read More »
Three Hats for Lisa (1965) Sidney Hayers, Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Sidney James, Comedy, Musical
Three young Cockneys take a day off work to meet a foreign movie star at Heathrow airport. Read More »
Wonderful Life (1964) Sidney J. Furie, Cliff Richard, Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire, Musical, Romance
A group of (literally) drifting popsters find themselves involved in a grim sand-and-sandals desert movie. They reckon a few song-and-dance numbers would liven things up. Read More »
The Running Man (1963) Carol Reed, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. Read More »
Høyere enn himmelen / Beyond the Sky (1993) Berit Nesheim, Inger Lise Winjevoll, Harriet Andersson, Arne Willy Granli Johnsen, Drama, Family
Based upon the novel by Klaus Hagerup, we follow the grumpy 12 year old Mari, without any friends, not at all content with her body or her family. Read More »
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988) Akio Jissôji, Shintarô Katsu, Kyûsaku Shimada, Mieko Harada, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city. Read More »
It Happened in Flatbush (1942) Ray McCarey, Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Sara Allgood, Comedy, Sport
It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers’ pennant win. Read More »