Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) Ray Enright, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Unscrupulous agent Rush makes singing waiter Clayton a big radio star Read More »
Melissa (1974) Peter Moffatt, Peter Barkworth, Ronald Fraser, Joan Benham
Unemployed journalist and aspiring novelist, Guy Foster, has a minor argument with his wife Melissa Read More »
Fox Style (1973) Clyde Houston, Chuck Daniel, Juanita Moore, Denise Denise
A wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs. Read More »
The Boatman Fighters / Hai do Zhang Bao Zhai (1975) Cheng-Liang Kwan, Tien Pai, Fan Chiang, Hsin Ling
The film chronicles the adventures of the notorious pirate Cheung Po Chai. Read More »
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History – The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008) Phillip Dye, Robert S. Birchard, Leslie Caron, Carol Channing
The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies Read More »
Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997) Douglas Barr, Dale Midkiff, Erika Eleniak, Paul Johansson
It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes Read More »
Algol: Tragedy of Power AKA Algol – Tragödie der Macht (1920) Hans Werckmeister, Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers. Read More »
Hotel Berlin (1945) Peter Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey
Near the end of WW II, a member of the German underground (Martin Richter) Read More »
In the Shadow of the Vultures / A Sombra dos Abutres (1998) Leonel Vieira, Vítor Norte, Diogo Infante, José Eduardo
1962 in Tras-os-Montes, a miners’ strike begins to be repressed by the National Guard. Read More »