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Author Archives: rarefilm
Track of the Cat (1954) William A. Wellman, Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn

A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen Read More »
The Pace That Kills (1928) William A. O’Connor, Norton S. Parker, Owen Gorin, Thelma Daniels, Florence Turner

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister Read More »
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Read More »
The Three Treasures (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father Read More »
Thomas (2008) Miika Soini, Lasse Pöysti, Mauri Heikkilä, Visa Koiso-Kanttila

Thomas, a former doctor, a widower, lives alone in a basement apartment in Helsinki. Read More »
The Christ of Nanjing (1995) Tony Au, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Yasuko Tomita, Shinobu Chihara

Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. Read More »
Naked (2002) Doris Dörrie, Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara

Emilia and Felix have separated some time ago, at Charlotte and Dylan (crumbling) the facade of the marital living together already Read More »
Vice Raid (1959) Edward L. Cahn

The bosses of the prostitution racket have one of their prostitutes go to New York City Read More »
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) Howard W. Koch, Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren

Near a small Utah town, visiting lawyer David Hewson finds the slashed body of party girl Marcia Morgan, his fellow tenant at Parry Lodge. Read More »