
In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert

The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
The Lady Is Willing (1934) Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes

A private detective is hired by three men to kidnap a wealthy man’s wife in order to get a ransom, but he soon falls for her. Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
The Girl Downstairs (1938) Norman Taurog, Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly

Paul Wagner and Rosalind Brown are in love, but her father doesn’t feel Paul’s lifestyle will make him a suitable husband for his daughter. Read More »
The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) Larry Lansburgh, George Fenneman, Dorian Williams, Slim Pickens

A palomino horse born into poverty is given a chance to compete in what he loves best- jumping and soaring over hurdles. Read More »
The Angel Levine (1970) Ján Kadár, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. Read More »
One Christmas (1994) Tony Bill, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Winkler, Swoosie Kurtz

In 1930, young Buddy (T.J. Lowther) lives with his aunt (Julie Harris) in Alabama. Read More »
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) George Schaefer, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes

A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can’t survive one week of living with an average family. Read More »