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Author Archives: rarefilm
Darling Lili (1970) Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp
WWI. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British Read More »
The Ugly Duckling (1959) Lance Comfort, Maudie Edwards, Reginald Beckwith, Shelagh Dey
Henry Jeckle was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon Read More »
Three Amigos! (1986) John Landis, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short
Three out of work silent movie actors are accidentally drawn to a Mexican village Read More »
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? AKA La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (1973) René Viénet, Chan Hung Liu, Ingrid Wu, Jason Pai Piao
Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms Read More »
The Hangman (1959) Michael Curtiz, Robert Taylor, Tina Louise, Fess Parker
A marshal nicknamed “The Hangman” because of his track record in hunting down Read More »
The Tin Star (1957) Anthony Mann, Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer
Veteran bounty-hunter Morg Hickman rides into a town in danger. Read More »
Shadows in the Night (1944) Eugene Forde, Warner Baxter, Nina Foch, George Zucco
A young woman wants The Crime Doctor to help her decipher her strange nightmares. Read More »
The Crime Doctor’s Diary (1949) Seymour Friedman, Warner Baxter, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell
Dr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson. Read More »
24 Hours to Kill (1965) Peter Bezencenet, Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Michael Medwin
A plane bound for Athens is forced to spend 24 hours in Beirut after an engine failure. Read More »
El deseo en otoño (1972) Carlos Enrique Taboada, Maricruz Olivier, Guillermo Murray, Sonia Furió
The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune Read More »
We Have Only One Life AKA Mia zoi tin ehoume (1958) Yorgos Javellas, Yvonne Sanson, Dimitris Horn, Vasilis Avlonitis
Kleon is a poor man trying to make his living with a small job at a bank. Read More »
Lilacs in the Spring (1954) Herbert Wilcox, Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar
A young entertainer, Carole Beaumont, is wooed by actor-producer Charles King but Read More »
Dying at Grace (2003) Allan King, Phyllis Bobbitt, Joyce Bone, Norman Collins
This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit Read More »
They Drive by Night (1938) Arthur B. Woods, Emlyn Williams, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes
A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver. Read More »