With the help of the Metropolitan Police, a girl starts to track down the gang who had her detective brother killed by a speeding car. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Backbiters (1924) Albert Dieudonné, Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Albert Dieudonné, Eugénie Nau, Drama
Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor’s wife and her friends. Read More »
Las aventuras de Juan Quin Quin / The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967) Julio García Espinosa, Júlio Martínez, Erdwin Fernández, Adelaida Raymat, Comedy
The metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan. Read More »
The Captive City (1952) Robert Wise, John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
A private investigator informs small-town newspaper editor Jim Austin (John Forsythe) of corrupt local activity. Read More »
Accused of Murder (1956) Joseph Kane, David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
When gangland lawyer Frank Hobart is murdered there are two suspects, Ilona Vanve , beautiful nightclub singer, and a hood named Stan Read More »
The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) Francis D. Lyon, Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, Action, Adventure, Family, War, Western
This is based on a true story. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. Read More »
I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991) Joseph L. Scanlan, Barbara Eden, Christopher Bolton, Bill Daily, Comedy
Col. Nelson is on a long-term, top-secret space mission. Jeannie cannot bring him home (temporarily) to hear their son’s important academic presentation without knowing exactly where he is in the first place. Read More »
Human Cargo (1936) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Bonnie Brewster (Claire Trevor) and “Packy” Campbell (Brian Donlevy), rival reporters on competing newspapers Read More »
The Brain Eaters (1958) Bruno VeSota, Ed Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, Cornelius Keefe, Sci-Fi, Horror
Strange things are happening in Riverdale, Illinois. A huge, seemingly alien structure has been found jutting out of the earth. Read More »
Bullet Scars (1942) D. Ross Lederman, Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire, Howard Da Silva, Crime, Drama
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Read More »
After Death (Oltre la morte) (1989) Claudio Fragasso, Jeff Stryker, Candice Daly, Massimo Vanni, Action, Horror
A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. Read More »
Permission to Kill (1975) Cyril Frankel, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Drama, Thriller
When the exiled leader of a free party decides to return to his own country, and attempts to remove the dictator currently in place there Read More »
Quiet Cool (1986) Clay Borris, James Remar, Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Coleman Howard, Action
Joe Dylanne is a plainclothes NYC cop with a badge… and a robust personality. He always resorts to unconventional methods in order to capture the city’s slickest criminals. Read More »
Miss Right (1982) Paul Williams, William Tepper, Margot Kidder, Karen Black, Comedy
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome, Italy, must dump his numerous female lovers one by one, but not all of them take it well. Read More »
The Life of Reilly (2006) Frank L. Anderson, Barry Poltermann, Charles Nelson Reilly, Documentary, Biography, Comedy
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block Read More »