George Freen (George Formby) is a scrawny, weakling barber’s assistant. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
He Snoops to Conquer (1944) Marcel Varnel, George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan
George Gribble (George Formby) works for the local council as an odd job man Read More »
The Escapist (2008) Rupert Wyatt, Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict fourteen years into a life sentence without parole. Read More »
Sit Tight (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown, Paul Gregory
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Read More »
Underground (1928) Anthony Asquith, Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Read More »
The Wrong Man (1993) Jim McBride, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Anderson, John Lithgow
US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico Read More »
Universal Soldier (1971) Cy Endfield, George Lazenby, Ben Carruthers, Robin Hunter
A lifelong mercenary commander and weapons expert played by George Lazenby Read More »
Public Housing (1997) Frederick Wiseman
Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman takes an intimate and nuanced Read More »
Domestic Violence 2 (2002) Frederick Wiseman
The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband Read More »
The Prowler (1951) Joseph Losey, Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
In a fancy suburb in California, the gorgeous housewife Susan Gilvray finds a prowler Read More »
Miss Nitouche AKA Mam’zelle Nitouche (1954) Yves Allégret, Fernandel, Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt
Denise discovered that Celestin leads a double life: he composes operetta Read More »
Cold Tracks AKA Kalde spor (1962) Arne Skouen, Toralv Maurstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland
Wartime 1944. Oddmund stays at a remote cabin in the high mountains Read More »
Hijack! (1973) Leonard J. Horn, David Janssen, Keenan Wynn, Lee Purcell
Two truck drivers are hired to transport a top-secret cargo from New York to Houston. Read More »
A Cry in the Night (1992) Robin Spry, Carol Higgins Clark, Perry King, Annie Girardot
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children Read More »
Hundred Days AKA Hundert Tage (1935) Franz Wenzler, Werner Krauss, Gustaf Gründgens, Kurt Junker
On February 26, 1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on Elba. Read More »