
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Her Mad Night / Held for Murder (1932) E. Mason Hopper, Conway Tearle, Irene Rich, Mary Carlisle

Irene Rich stars as a mother who takes the blame when her daughter Merna Kennedy apparently commits murder. Read More »
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait / Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974) Barbet Schroeder, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir

Uganda’s dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew’s request to interview and film him. Read More »
Paula (1952) Rudolph Maté, Loretta Young, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox

Distraught after her second miscarriage & learning definitively she could never have children Paula Read More »
The Black Pirates (1954) Allen H. Miner, Anthony Dexter, Martha Roth, Lon Chaney Jr.

Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried Read More »
War and Peace (1965) Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva

Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Lev Tolstoy. Read More »
Legacy of Rage / Long zai jiang hu (1986) Ronny Yu, Brandon Lee, Michael Wong, Regina Kent

Brandon plays Brandon Ma, a regular working Joe who holds down two jobs Read More »
Frog Dreaming / The Quest (1986) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Henry Thomas, Tony Barry, Rachel Friend

American boy, Cody, whose parents have died, lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Read More »
Gates of the Night / Les portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné, Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand

It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp, pretending to be Destiny Read More »
Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964) Maury Dexter, Ken Scott, Merry Anders, Russ Bender

A down-on-his-luck California apartment house manager hatches a plan to rob Read More »