Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
The Lovers! (1973) Herbert Wise, Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, Susan Littler
Big-screen version of the TV sit-com about the ups-and-downs of a young courting couple’s relationship. Read More »
The Blade (1995) Hark Tsui, Wenzhuo Zhao, Xin Xin Xiong, Sonny Su
After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker Read More »
Cornered (1945) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing Read More »
Angel Dust (1994) Gakuryû Ishii, Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa
Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. Read More »
Yours for the Asking (1936) Alexander Hall, George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess Read More »
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews
Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Read More »
Up the Down Staircase (1967) Robert Mulligan, Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York’s inner-city Calvin Coolidge High Read More »
That’s My Man (1947) Frank Borzage, Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track Read More »