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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Singing Hill (1941) Lew Landers, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale

If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land. Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck

A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) Anatole Litvak, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin Read More »
The Oracle (1953) C.M. Pennington-Richards, Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna

An Irish “oracle” foretells the next day’s track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar. Read More »
Headlights in the Fog AKA Fari nella nebbia (1942) Gianni Franciolini, Fosco Giachetti, Luisa Ferida, Antonio Centa

A lorry driver, deserted by his wife, falls for another woman who also betrays him. Read More »
Policarpo AKA Policarpo ‘ufficiale di scrittura’ (1959) Mario Soldati, Renato Rascel, Carla Gravina, Romolo Valli

The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works Read More »
Hooper (1978) Hal Needham, Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field

Aging stuntman Sonney Hooper is still on top as one of the best stuntmen in the business. Read More »
The Builder (2010) Rick Alverson, Courtney Bowles, Robert Donne, Stuart Dumais

Following an Irish immigrant carpenter from coastal Queens to the Catskills and beyond Read More »
The Comedy (2012) Rick Alverson, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy

Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father’s estate, a restless Read More »