A Writer whose every whim is financed by rich widow. The writer seems to be insincere with her and he is loved by a poor women who is engaged to a wealthy man. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Wild Honey (1972) Don Edmonds, Edward Blessington, K.W. Christian, Uschi Digard
A farm girl girl runs away from her sexually abusive father and ends up in Los Angeles. Read More »
Children of a Lesser God (1986) Randa Haines, William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. Read More »
Blue Hawaii (1961) Norman Taurog, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. Read More »
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) Robert Mulligan, Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray
With her infant daughter Margaret Rose in tow, Georgette Thomas pulls up stakes from Tyler, Texas to head to Columbus Read More »
Apache Drums (1951) Hugo Fregonese, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches. Read More »
When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, “Have you checked the children lately?” Read More »
Prince In Hell (1993) Michael Stock, Wolfram Haack, Stefan Laarmann
The story is set soon after the reunification of West and East Germany, and is about the disintegrating relationship between Jockel a political activist and Stefan a heroin junkie Read More »
He Laughed Last (1956) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter
In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »
Ecstasy (1933) Gustav Machatý, Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn’t have much room for passion. Read More »