The Ramseys, David and Joyce (Barry Sullivan and Bette Davis), have been married for about 21 years and have two daughters (Betty Lynn and Peggie Castle). Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Honeymoon for Three (1941) Lloyd Bacon, Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Comedy
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling Read More »
The Nitwits (1935) George Stevens, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Johnnie is a would-be songwriter; Newton is a would-be inventor. Both work at a cigar stand in the lobby of an office building. Read More »
The Star Chamber (1983) Peter Hyams, Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Hardin is a hard-working, honest judge becoming frustrated with a legal system, that continuously forces him to release criminals on technicalities. Read More »
The Singing Detective (2003) Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) reworks his first book in his head. Read More »
Il rossetto / Lipstick (1960) Damiano Damiani, Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Crime, Drama
A prostitute is found dead in an adjoining that of Silvana, a girl of thirteen who is in love with his neighbor Gino, a thirty handsome building. Read More »
Hibernatus (1969) Édouard Molinaro, Louis de Funès, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Read More »
On the Sunny Side (1942) Harold D. Schuster, Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Drama, War
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Read More »
L’Ultimo Capodanno / Humanity’s Last New Year’s Eve (1998) Marco Risi, Max Mazzotta, Monica Bellucci, Beppe Fiorello, Comedy, Drama
New year’s eve at “The Islands” condos. An aging countess’s party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo’s town. Read More »
Youngblood Hawke (1964) Delmer Daves, James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Drama
Youngblood Hawke is a truck driver from Kentucky who comes to New York City to become a hot-shot writer. Read More »
The FBI Story (1959) Mervyn LeRoy, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Crime, Drama, History
The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the klu klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.
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L’armoire volante / The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) Carlo Rim, Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Comedy, Crime
Alfred Pic is a conscientious tax inspector who lives with his authoritarian aged aunt. Read More »
I’m a Stranger (1952) Brock Williams, Greta Gynt, James Hayter, Hector Ross, Crime, Comedy
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance — only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. Read More »
Song of the Saddle (1936) Louis King, Dick Foran, Alma Lloyd, Charles Middleton, Action, Adventure, Music, Western
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Read More »
My Lover My Son (1970) John Newland, Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Drama
Francesca Anderson, the rich wife of an older millionaire, can’t cope with the death of her lover, who is the father of her only son, James. Read More »