Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Just for Fun (1963) Gordon Flemyng, Mark Wynter, Cherry Roland, Alan Caddy, Musical, Comedy
With an election approaching, the two major political parties in England work desperately to capture the enthusiasm of teenagers, who have been granted the right to vote. Read More »
I Only Arsked! (1958) Montgomery Tully, Bernard Bresslaw, Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass, Comedy
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Read More »
So Goes My Love (1946) Frank Ryan, Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jane Budden, a country girl goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Hiram Maxim, a struggling inventor. Read More »
Red Dust (1932) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Drama, Romance
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. Read More »
The Savages (2007) Tamara Jenkins, Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Comedy, Drama
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Read More »
I Married a Doctor (1936) Archie Mayo, Pat O’Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Ross Alexander, Drama
The story is about a sophisticated Chicago woman (Josephine Hutchinson) who marries a small-town doctor (Pat O’Brien) and moves to that town Read More »
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Josef von Sternberg, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Read More »
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Comedy
Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won’t marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. Read More »
The Charlatan (1929) George Melford, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Rockliffe Fellowes, Thriller, Crime
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Read More »
Il Colosso di Rodi / The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) Sergio Leone, Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Adventure, Drama, History
A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor Read More »
Palio (1932) Alessandro Blasetti, Leda Gloria, Laura Nucci, Guido Celano, Drama
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance’ to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe’ chanteuse. Read More »
The Boost (1988) Harold Becker, James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Drama, Romance
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. Read More »
The Equinox…A Journey Into The Supernatural (1967) Jack Woods, Mark Thomas McGee, Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Bonner, Horror, Adventure, Mystery
Four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information. Told in flashbacks by the sole survivor. Read More »
The Champ (1979) Franco Zeffirelli, Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder, Drama, Sport
Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J. Read More »