Cafe owner Stan Fabian joins Joanie Daniel and her “brother” Frank in a scheme to unearth a “fortune in stolen gold buried by Frank” in Germany during World War II Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940) Sidney Salkow, Warren William, Eric Blore, Jean Muir
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman’s son and accused of a murder she didn’t commit. Read More »
Outrageous! (1977) Richard Benner, Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley
Robin Turner is a gay hairdresser. He hates his job. He loves old movies and will do his customers’ hair in the style of an iconic movie star if they’ll let him, and even if they don’t. Read More »
The Supreme Uneasiness (2003) Luis Ospina, Fernando Vallejo, Antonio Caballero, Carlos Monsivåis
The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant portrait of Fernando Vallejo is a documentary about the controversial Colombian writer exiled in Mexico. Read More »
Fire with Fire (1986) Duncan Gibbins, Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Jon Polito
In this fact-based melodrama, Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a Catholic girl’s school student, in an Oregon forest. Read More »
College Scandal (1935) Elliott Nugent, Arline Judge, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Read More »
Badlands of Dakota (1941) Alfred E. Green, Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Read More »
The Thirteenth Hour (1947) William Clemens, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg
In the 7th of Columbia’s “Whistler” series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm Read More »
Man of Iron (1981) Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
A worker becomes a “man of iron” forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love Read More »
The Happy Time (1952) Richard Fleischer, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt
Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert Read More »