A Central American woman hires an American hit man to assassinate the former dictator of her island country. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Ernst Lubitsch, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
In Budapest, Hungary, the Matuschek and Company store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek Read More »
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) John Paddy Carstairs, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney
Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals Read More »
Now I’ll Tell (1934) Edwin J. Burke, Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye
Golden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he’ll quit when he makes $200,000. Read More »
The Descendants of Taro Urashima / Urashima Tarô no kôei (1946) Mikio Naruse, Susumu Fujita, Nobuo Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier Read More »
The Great Mughal AKA Mughal-E-Azam (1960) K. Asif, Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar
Set in the 16th century AD, the movie brings to life the tale of the doomed love affair between the Mughal Crown Prince Saleem Read More »
Women’s Prison (1955) Lewis Seiler, Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore
During the 1950s, two women inmates are sent to a maximum security state prison. Read More »
Massacre Time AKA Le colt cantarono la morte e fu… tempo di massacro (1966) Lucio Fulci, Franco Nero, George Hilton, Linda Sini
In 1866 New Mexico, Tom Corbett is a prospector who is called back to his hometown in Laramie Town Read More »
A Man There Was AKA Terje Vigen (1917) Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Read More »
Salome’s Last Dance (1988) Ken Russell, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace
Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play ‘Salome, on Guy Fawkes day, 1892. Read More »