Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry, whose present respectable veneer obscures the fact that he once served a prison sentence. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Coeur de lilas (1932) Anatole Litvak, Marcelle Romée, André Luguet, Jean Gabin
Lilac is consorting with the criminal scum of Paris but then she falls in love with a handsome detective… Read More »
Pancho Villa (1972) Eugenio Martín, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors
Having lost his influence and on the way to be executed in Mexico City, the once mighty Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa Read More »
Xanadu (1980) Robert Greenwald, Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. Read More »
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) Charles Jarrott, Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Leo Genn
This made-for-television adaptation doesn’t waste time with preliminaries. Read More »
Murder with Mirrors (1985) Dick Lowry, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills
Christian Gilbranson, Miss Marple’s lawyer, persuades her to visit the baronial estate of his step-mother Read More »
The Restless Years (1958) Helmut Käutner, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. Read More »
Chappaqua (1966) Conrad Rooks, Jean-Louis Barrault, William S. Burroughs
The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by director Conrad Rooks. Read More »
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (2015) Tomas Hodan, Tim Burton, Tony Dalton, Kamil Fila
A biographical film looking back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema. Read More »
The Balloon Goes Up (1942) Redd Davis, Ethel Revnell, Ronald Shiner, Donald Peers
The Balloon Goes Up is a British amalgam of music hall vulgarities and radio one-liners. Read More »