
William “The Baron” Addington is a former pool pro whose lifetime of boozing has cost him his career and family. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
No More Orchids (1932) Walter Lang, Carole Lombard, Lyle Talbot, Walter Connolly

At the urging of her curmudgeon old grandfather Jerome Cedric (C. Aubrey Smith) Read More »
The Love Race (1931) Lupino Lane, Pat Morton, Stanley Lupino, Jack Hobbs, Dorothy Boyd

Misunderstandings cause Lupino’s fiancee to jilt Lupino when he has the wrong suitcase full of lingerie. Read More »
The Ware Case (1938) Robert Stevenson, Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry K. Barnes

In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law Read More »
Triumph of the Will AKA Triumph des Willens (1935) Leni Riefenstahl, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. Read More »
The Best House in London (1969) Philip Saville, David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders

In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. Read More »
Francis Goes to West Point (1952) Arthur Lubin, Donald O’Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley

Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal’s money-spinning series about a talking mule. Read More »
Zenne Dancer (2012) Caner Alper, Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci

A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Read More »
The Shame AKA La vergüenza (2009) David Planell, Natalia Mateo, Alberto San Juan, Marta Aledo

The Shame occurs in a single morning. The morning when Pepe and Lucía, a modern Read More »
March on Rome AKA La marcia su Roma (1962) Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin

After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools Read More »