Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Hell Divers (1931) George W. Hill, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Conrad Nagel
Clark Gable takes off in his first starring role, a high-flying action-adventure costarring Wallace Beery and directed by George Hill (Tell It to the Marines). Read More »
The Thin Blue Line (1988) Errol Morris, Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose
Errol Morris’s unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer’s murder in Dallas, Texas. Read More »
The Courtyard (1995) Fred Walton, Andrew McCarthy, Mädchen Amick, Cheech Marin
Architect Jonathan moves into an LA courtyard apartment complex, then one of his neighbors is murdered by mistake.. Jonathan was the intended victim. Read More »
Emmanuelle: A World of Desire (1994) Lev L. Spiro, Krista Allen, Paul Michael Robinson, P.S. Sono
Alien charges are showing great “potential” in the lovemaking department–especially one hunky male–but things could get out of hand when another student falls for an Earth girl. Read More »
Fighting Trouble (1956) George Blair, Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Adele Jergens
“Sach” has become a camera fiend so, in the pursuit of some ready cash, “Duke” takes him and his photographs to the editor of the New York Morning Blade, Mr. Ray Vance. Read More »
The Big Heat (1988) Yeung-Wah Kam, Johnnie To, Waise Lee, Joey Wang, Matthew Wong
Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner’s mysterious murder. Read More »
The Flying Saucer (1964) Tinto Brass, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Eleonora Rossi Drago
The serious and somewhat slow Police Inspector and his bumbling assistant investigate reports of “strange goings-on” in a rural community. Read More »
The Great Santini (1979) Lewis John Carlino, Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O’Keefe
In 1962, the Marine Corps family, the Meechums – parents Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur “Bull” Meechum and Lillian Meechum Read More »
Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Read More »