A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
20 Mule Team (1940) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau
In California’s Death Valley, in 1892, borax miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing Read More »
Postmen in the Mountains (1999) Jianqi Huo, Rujun Teng, Ye Liu, Hao Chen
A father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province. Read More »
Godless (2016) Ralitza Petrova, Irena Ivanova, Ventzislav Konstantinov, Svezhen Mladenov
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Read More »
God’s Little Acre (1958) Anthony Mann, Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray
A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. Read More »
Desire Under the Elms (1958) Delbert Mann, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Read More »
The Phantom Fiend / The Lodger (1932) Maurice Elvey, Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb
A maniac is terrorizing London, stalking and murdering street-women at night. Read More »
The Unbelievable Truth (1989) Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where me meets Audry Hugo. Read More »
Hold Back the Night (1956) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves
A bottle of Scotch carried by WW2 veteran Captain Sam MacKenzie of the U.S. Marine Corps Read More »
Slightly Scarlet (1956) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June Read More »