
Bounty Hunter Luke Chilson (Richard Wyler) is trailing convicted bandit Jose Gomez (Tomas Milian) Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tiger Bay (1959) J. Lee Thompson, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills

Gille Jenkins, a 12 year old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement Read More »
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »
Gambling Lady (1934) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee’s. Read More »
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Joseph Sargent, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it’s paid, how could they get away? Read More »
Life Story (1987) Mick Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Pigott-Smith, Alan Howard

Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling Read More »
Shoot, Gringo… Shoot! / Spara, Gringo, spara (1968) Bruno Corbucci, Brian Kelly, Fabrizio Moroni, Keenan Wynn

Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez. Read More »
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi) Read More »
Urgences (1988) Raymond Depardon

A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. Read More »
Memories and Confessions (1993) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal. Read More »