Teenaged Junior (Scotty Beckett) gets into trouble when he tries to bring a gun to school. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959) John Guillermin, Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane
After diamond hunters kill two people while stealing explosives, Tarzan sets off after them. Read More »
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) Robert Day, Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, Betta St. John
Tarzan must escort his prisoner Coy Banton out of the jungle to the authorities. Read More »
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined Read More »
Adios Sabata AKA Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di… (1970) Gianfranco Parolini, Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla
In Mexico, during the rule of the self-proclaimed Emperor of Mexico Maximillian (1864-1867) Read More »
What’s Up Doc? (1972) Peter Bogdanovich, Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Madeline Kahn
Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. Read More »
Forest AKA Rengeteg (2003) Benedek Fliegauf, Rita Braun, Barbara Csonka, Laszlo Cziffer
We see people in a shopping mall; one man deliberately leaves a backpack behind in the crowd Read More »
Vote for Huggett (1949) Ken Annakin, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river Read More »
Story of a Beloved Wife AKA Aisai monogatari (1951) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Jûkichi Uno, Ichirô Sugai
Shindo’s directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Read More »
Mr. Poirier’s Son-in-Law AKA Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Léon Bernard, Annie Ducaux, Jean Debucourt
This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter Read More »
The Forest for the Trees AKA Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003) Maren Ade, Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann
As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city Read More »
Scissere (1982) Peter Mettler, Anthony Downes, Greg Krantz, Christie MacFadyen
Bruno Scissere, a heroin addict who has been confined to a psychiatric Read More »
Cow Country (1953) Lesley Selander, Edmond O’Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery
A “big” western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander. Read More »
Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987) Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D’Amato, Lara Wendel, Robert Vaughn, Timothy W. Watts
In Louisiana, a soldier returning from Vietnam finds his wife in bed with her lover Read More »
Back Street (1932) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde
A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life. Read More »