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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Public Eye (1992) Howard Franklin, Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle

Leon Bernstein is New York’s best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops or crooks. Read More »
The Animal Kingdom (1932) Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor, Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. Read More »
The Man (1972) Joseph Sargent, James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith

When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse Read More »
A Japanese Tragedy AKA Nihon no higeki (1953) Keisuke Kinoshita, Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow Read More »
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) Robert Aldrich, Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol

At the end of the Second World War six German ex-soldiers return to Berlin and set up as a bomb disposal group. Read More »
The Black Archer (1959) Piero Pierotti, Gérard Landry, Federica Ranchi, Livio Lorenzon

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father. Read More »
Woman in the Dark (1934) Phil Rosen, Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Melvyn Douglas

A paroled prisoner hits a man attacking a woman. Read More »
The Boys of Paul Street AKA A Pál utcai fiúk (1968) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Sándor Pécsi, László Kozák

In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. Read More »
Son of the Red Corsair AKA Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1959) Primo Zeglio, Lex Barker, Sylvia Lopez, Vira Silenti

Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met. Read More »