Sidney Howard’s once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with Laura Hope Crews recreating her stage role. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Rockabye (1932) George Cukor, George Fitzmaurice, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas
Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager Read More »
Deadmans Curve (1978) Richard Compton, Richard Hatch, Bruce Davison, Pamela Bellwood
On Jan and Dean’s rise to the top of the music industry, a horrible car accident leaves Jan Berry incapacitated and their dreams shattered. Read More »
Wolf (1955) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Sanae Takasugi, Taiji Tonoyama
A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. Read More »
My Pal Wolf (1944) Alfred L. Werker, Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O’Connor
In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English nanny Read More »
Secret Lives (1937) Edmond T. Gréville, Brigitte Horney, Neil Hamilton, Raymond Lovell
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War Read More »
Love Among the Millionaires (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs. Read More »
The Comedians (1941) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. Read More »
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) Irving Cummings, Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart
Little Barbara gets lost and is then picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara’s father hears the act on the radio and finds his lost daughter. Read More »
The Saga of Khayal (1989) Kumar Shahani, Mangal Dhillon, Rajat Kapoor, Mita Vasisht
The film is presented in an abstract format, where a music student (Mangal Dhillon) listens to stories Read More »