The only feature film by the painter and documentary filmmaker, Juergen Boettcher. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Doss House (1933) John Baxter, Frank Cellier, Arnold Bell, Herbert Franklyn
An escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses Read More »
Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary (1941) George B. Seitz, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
Andy Hardy is about to graduate from high school and thinks he’s pretty big stuff, so he hires a secretary, Kathryn Land. Read More »
Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) Michael Curtiz, Georg Reimers, Victor Varconi, Lucy Doraine
When the old multimillionaire Jackson Harber wants to marry the young model Mary Read More »
All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960) Michael Anderson, Vincente Minnelli, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner
The minister of the town has died and his son Chad has no tears for him. Read More »
6,000 Enemies (1939) George B. Seitz, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds Read More »
An Event AKA Dogadjaj (1969) Vatroslav Mimica, Pavle Vuisic, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Boris Dvornik
A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner Read More »
Japanese War Bride (1952) King Vidor, Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell
Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. Read More »
The Mudlark (1950) Jean Negulesco, Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray
In 1875 London, young Wheeler (who lives by scavenging) finds a cameo of Queen Victoria Read More »
Kill or Be Killed (1950) Max Nosseck, Lawrence Tierney, George Coulouris, Marissa O’Brien
Man accused of a murder he didn’t commit hides out in the South American jungle. Read More »
Ringo: The Lone Rider AKA Dos hombres van a morir (1968) Rafael Romero Marchent, Peter Martell, Piero Lulli, Dyanik Zurakowska
Bill Anderson and his band of ex Confederates are terrorizing the town of Springfield Read More »
Cat’s Cradle AKA Cama de Gato (2012) João Miller Guerra, Filipa Reis, Joana Santos
We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal Read More »
The Ape Woman AKA La donna scimmia (1964) Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Achille Majeroni
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. Read More »
The Last Alarm (1940) William Beaudine, J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hull, Polly Ann Young
The Fire Department forces a veteran firefighter to retire at age 65, but when one of his friends Read More »
Ace High AKA I quattro dell’Ave Maria (1968) Giuseppe Colizzi, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Eli Wallach
After Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach) saves himself from being hanged on a false charge Read More »