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Author Archives: rarefilm
Two Sisters from Boston (1946) Henry Koster, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she’s a successful opera singer in New York. Read More »
One Foot in Hell (1960) James B. Clark, Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O’Herlihy

Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can’t pay for the medicine she needs. Read More »
Garibaldi (1961) Roberto Rossellini, Renzo Ricci, Paolo Stoppa, Franco Interlenghi

How Italy’s historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign Read More »
The Blind Owl (1975) Kiumars Derambakhsh, Parviz Fanizadeh, Farshid Farshood, Novin Ghiasi

The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. Read More »
A Night at the Opera (1935) Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx

The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man’s lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Read More »
The Black Torment (1964) Robert Hartford-Davis, Heather Sears, John Turner, Ann Lynn

A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumors that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Read More »
The Stone Wedding (1973) Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. Read More »
Erotic Ghost Story III (1992) Kai-Ming Lai, Pauline Chan, Fui-On Shing, King-Man Chik

Set in the Tang Dynasty, the plot concerns an engaged couple, Chu Chung and Liu Su-su Read More »
A Coachman (1961) Dae-jin Kang, Seung-ho Kim, Yeong-gyun Shin, Jeong-sun Hwang

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. Read More »