
Barbarossa, a pirate, frees a group of Spanish prisoners and makes them his crew. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Great Diamond Robbery (1954) Robert Z. Leonard, Red Skelton, Cara Williams, James Whitmore

Ambrose C. Park (Red Skelton), left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents Read More »
Dangerous (1935) Alfred E. Green, Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Read More »
Hidden Homicide (1959) Anthony Young, Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan, James Kenney

A man wakes up in a strange location with a gun in his hand and a dead body Read More »
The Lost Hours (1952) David MacDonald, Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh

During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. Read More »
Ice Palace (1960) Vincent Sherman, Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Martha Hyer

At the end of World War I, Zeb Kennedy, a canner, and Thor Storm, a fishing boat captain Read More »
Between Two Wars / Zwischen zwei Kriegen (1978) Harun Farocki, Ingemo Engström, Jeff Layton, Renée Schlesier

A film about the time of the blast furnances – 1917 – 1933 – about the development of an industry Read More »
Postman’s Knock (1962) Robert Lynn, Spike Milligan, Barbara Shelley, Archie Duncan

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London Read More »
Sadie Thompson (1928) Raoul Walsh, Lionel Barrymore

Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson Read More »
The Bourne Identity (1988) Roger Young, Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle

An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. Read More »