
In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Living Koheiji (1982) Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. Read More »
I Was a Prisoner on Devils Island (1941) Lew Landers, Sally Eilers, Donald Woods, Eduardo Ciannelli

The first officer on a freighter accidentally kills his captain during a heated wage dispute and ends up sentenced to the dreaded Devil’s Island. Read More »
My American Wife (1936) Harold Young, Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred Stone

Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach arrives in Smelter City, Arizona, with his American bride, Mary Cantillon. Read More »
It Should Happen to You! (1954) George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford

Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. Read More »
Rhythm of a Crime AKA Ritam zlocina (1981) Zoran Tadic, Ivica Vidovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Bozidarka Frajt

A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. Read More »
In the Wink of an Eye AKA Kisapmata (1981) Mike De Leon, Charo Santos-Concio, Jay Ilagan, Vic Silayan

An crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema Read More »
The Man Who Stole the Sun AKA Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Bunta Sugawara, Kenji Sawada, Kimiko Ikegami

A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. Read More »
Night Flight (1933) Clarence Brown

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there’s only one way to get the medicine Read More »
Consolation Marriage (1931) Paul Sloane, Irene Dunne, Pat O’Brien, John Halliday

In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Read More »