Looks like the film that might have inspired Hugo Hass to make one like it twice a year in the early fifties. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Where the Bullets Fly AKA Tutti fratelli nel west… per parte di padre (1972) Sergio Grieco, Antonio Sabato, Fernando Sancho, Lionel Stander
Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Read More »
In My Life AKA Honning måne (1978) Bille August, Claus Strandberg, Kirsten Olesen, Jens Okking
A young man, Jens, gets a job in a Copenhagen factory. He lives with his mother and has been without a job for a while. Read More »
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972) Barry Crane, Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner
Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, try to solve the murder of the heir to the Baskerville fortune. Read More »
Flash Gordon (1980) Mike Hodges, Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow
Flash Gordon is an American football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Hans Zarkov’s rocketship along with his beautiful girlfriend Dale Arden. Read More »
Anita: Dances of Vice AKA Anita: Tänze des Lasters (1987) Rosa von Praunheim, Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honesseau
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber Read More »
Shoah: Four Sisters AKA Les quatre soeurs (2018) Claude Lanzmann, Paula Biren, Ruth Elias
Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust. Read More »
Montana Trap AKA Potato Fritz (1976) Peter Schamoni, Hardy Krüger, Stephen Boyd, Anton Diffring
Potato farmer, Fritz, moves to Wild West with his fellow German immigrants. Read More »
Quiz (2012) Dick Maas, Barry Atsma, Hanna Verboom, Susan Radder
A famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. Read More »
The Celebration AKA Festen (1998) Thomas Vinterberg, Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Read More »
Rose Marie (1954) Mervyn LeRoy, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Musical
Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. Read More »
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) Hanns Schwarz, Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott
Sir Percy Blakeney(in the guise of the masked Scarlet Pimpernel), an Englishman who with the aid of a band of his friends Read More »
Hiawatha (1952) Kurt Neumann, Vince Edwards, Yvette Duguay, Keith Larsen
Hiawatha, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is on a peace mission to the Dakotah tribe. He meets and falls in love with Minniehaha. Read More »
J.C. (1972) William F. McGaha, Hannibal Penney, Joanna Moore
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years Read More »
All That I Love AKA Wszystko, co kocham (2009) Jacek Borcuch, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal
Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek Read More »