Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago mobster Roger Touhy. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
River Without Buoys (1984) Tian-Ming Wu, Ronghua Hu, Wei Li, Baosen Song
Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Read More »
Vinodentro (2013) Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Vincenzo Amato, Pietro Sermonti, Daniela Virgilio
It all started with the first wine sip Giovanni Cuttin had in his life. Read More »
Halloween II (1981) Rick Rosenthal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers
In a continuation of the plot of Halloween, Michael Myers shows off his indestructability by resuming his murder spree despite being gunned down with six bullets in the original movie. Read More »
Marianne (1929) Robert Z. Leonard, Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray
During World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who is fighting at the front. Read More »
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) Richard Quine, Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Using Helen Gurley Brown’s book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor Read More »
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999) Shelley Lyons, Kevin Burns, Joan Collins, Darrilyn Zanuck DePineda, Margaret Dumont
A Cavalcade of Stars in Complete Long Lost Musical Numbers! See Rare Hollywood Footage Rescued from the Cutting Room Floor! Read More »
Portrait of Teresa (1979) Pastor Vega, Idalia Anreus, Miguel Benavides, Samuel Claxton
Teresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Read More »
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997) Michael Matessino, Kevin Burns, Joan Collins, Don Ameche, Phil Baker
Hollywood’s Best Loved Stars in a Cavalcade of of Rare and Long Lost Footage Rescued from the Cutting Room Floor! Read More »
Our Heavenly Bodies (1925) Hanns Walter Kornblum, Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos
Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. Read More »