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Author Archives: rarefilm
Just Pals (1920) John Ford, Buck Jones, Helen Ferguson, Georgie Stone

Bim is the town ne’er-do-well, lazy and shiftless, living a catch-as-catch-can existence. Read More »
Hawmps! (1976) Joe Camp, James Hampton, Christopher Connelly, Slim Pickens

A cavalry outpost in the Wild West of nineteenth century U.S. is in need of horses. Read More »
A Killer in the Family (1983) Richard T. Heffron, Robert Mitchum, James Spader, Lance Kerwin

A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life Read More »
One of Her Own (1994) Armand Mastroianni, Lori Loughlin, Greg Evigan, Valerie Landsburg

Trainee police officer Toni Stroud (Loughlin) has just gotten her first report card from her superiors; straight A’s. Read More »
Rage and Honor (1992) Terence H. Winkless, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Terri Treas

Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer Read More »
Men Are Such Fools (1938) Busby Berkeley, Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart

Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. Read More »
Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies (1992) Joseph F. Robertson, Karen Black, Pat Morita, Kristine Rose

Outside the small, one-cop town of Penance, California, Auntie Lee bakes her popular meat pies Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1958) Ralph Thomas, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker

During the French Revolution, French national Lucie Manette (Dorothy Tutin) meets Read More »
The Battle for the Liberation of Japan: Summer in Sanrizuka AKA Nihon Kaiho sensen: Sanrizuka no natsu (1968) Shinsuke Ogawa

Farmers in a collective of ancient villages near Tokyo fight back one summer Read More »