A carnival burlesque dancer robs her junkie ex-husband, goes to New York, gets a job at a high-class club where she becomes the mistress of the wealthy owner. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
An Elephant Called Slowly (1970) James Hill, Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Vinay Inambar
This African adventure presents many interesting sights as it tells the story of a tourist Read More »
The Heart (1973) Kaneto Shindô, Noboru Matsuhashi, Kazunaga Tsuji, Anri
Adaptation of Natsume Soseki’s classic novel in a modern setting. Read More »
The Truth About Women (1957) Muriel Box, Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Diane Cilento
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well. Read More »
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Rowland V. Lee, Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern
Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d’If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. Read More »
Under Milk Wood (1972) Andrew Sinclair, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole
This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called “Llareggub” (read it backwards). Read More »
Frozen Days (2005) Danny Lerner, Anat Klausner, Sandra Sade, Uli Sternberg
Meow is a young woman roaming the streets and nightclubs of Tel Aviv. She lives in empty apartments and surfs the internet chat rooms. Read More »
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) Bernard McEveety, Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Read More »
Half a Sixpence (1967) George Sidney, Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard
Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile Read More »
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016) Calum Waddell, Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Ruggero Deodato
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime fiction Read More »