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Author Archives: rarefilm
Smart Blonde (1937) Frank McDonald, Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Wini Shaw
Journalist Torchy Blane and her fiance Lt. Steve McBride are trying to solve Read More »
Love Crime / Le crime d’amour (1982) Guy Gilles, Macha Méril, Richard Berry, Jacques Penot
To escape anonymity, a young man takes responsibility for a crime he did not commit. Read More »
The Afternoon of a Torturer / Dupa-amiaza unui tortionar (2001) Lucian Pintilie, Gheorghe Dinica, Radu Beligan, Ioana Ana Macaria
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania. Read More »
Fate Deals the Card of Death / Bakuchi-uchi: Inochi-huda (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michiyo Yasuda
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after Read More »
Cinemanovels (2013) Terry Miles, Lauren Lee Smith, Jennifer Beals, Ben Cotton
As a young woman prepares a memorial film retrospective for her late estranged father Read More »
Desperate Man Blues (2003) Edward Gillan, Joe Bussard, Susannah Anderson, Barbara Brown
Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it’s 1929! A cultural scavenger, musician and broadcaster Read More »
Midnight Court (1937) Frank McDonald, Ann Dvorak, John Litel, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Victor Shanley had once been New York City’s most-acclaimed crime-fighting Read More »
The Cold Heart / Das kalte Herz (1950) Paul Verhoeven, Lutz Moik, Hanna Rucker, Paul Bildt
Peter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, lives with his mother in The Black Forest. Read More »
The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) John Hoffman, Ron Randell, June Vincent, Alan Mowbray
Michael Lanyard aka The Lone Wolf (Ron Randell) reformed and retired jewel thief Read More »