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Author Archives: rarefilm
Gun Brothers (1956) Sidney Salkow, Buster Crabbe, Ann Robinson, Neville Brand
Chad Santee heads west to join his brother, Jubal, that allegedly has a large cattle ranch. Read More »
UFO Blue Christmas AKA Burû Kurisumasu (1978) Kihachi Okamoto, Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita, Eiji Okada
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Read More »
Kidnapped (1978) Eric Mitchell, Patti Astor, Stefan Hurdalek, Steve Mass
Mitchell’s first movie, a blunt unedited entertainment of Andy Warhol’s Vinyl filmed in 1978 Read More »
Choice of Arms AKA Le choix des armes (1981) Alain Corneau, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey Read More »
Belle Le Grand (1951) Allan Dwan, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn’t commit Read More »
Horizontal Landscape AKA Pejzaz horyzontalny (1978) Janusz Kidawa, Mieczyslaw Hryniewicz, Jaroslaw Kopaczewski, Wieslaw Wójcik
After the construction foreman is fired in Communist-era Poland Read More »
Roseanna McCoy (1949) Irving Reis, Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn’s Roseanna McCoy. Read More »
Our Very Own (1950) David Miller, Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans
Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during Read More »
Pigeon Shoot AKA Tiro al piccione (1961) Giuliano Montaldo, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jacques Charrier, Francisco Rabal
In September 1943, young Marco Laudato enlists in the army of the Republic of Salò Read More »
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) Peter Weir, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. Read More »
Hajji Washington (1983) Ali Hatami, Ezzatolah Entezami, Richard Harrison, Russel Case
Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) Read More »
Fight for Life (1987) Elliot Silverstein, Jerry Lewis, Morgan Freeman, Jaclyn Bernstein
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. Read More »
Strange Fate AKA Étrange destin (1946) Louis Cuny, Renée Saint-Cyr, Aimé Clariond, Henri Vidal
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. Read More »
Danton (1931) Hans Behrendt, Fritz Kortner, Lucie Mannheim, Gustaf Gründgens
At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings Read More »