Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Twelfth Night (1970) John Sichel, Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Drama
In this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – a fanciful farce of classic proportions with a wealth of slapstick Read More »
The Bride Goes Wild (1948) Norman Taurog, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Comedy, Romance
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Read More »
Red River Robin Hood (1942) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Barbara Moffett, Western
Arriving in Red River to join their friend Chet Andrews in the ownership of a cattle ranch Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sport, Thriller
While steaming from Honolulu to Los Angeles the owner of a prize racehorse headed for the Santa Anita Handicap is killed, apparently kicked to death by his stallion. Read More »
The Brain That Wouldnt Die (1962) Joseph Green, Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Bill Cortner has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father, also a surgeon. Read More »
Women in Bondage (1943) Steve Sekely, Gail Patrick, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Drama, War
Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Read More »
An Andalusian Dog (1929) Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »
Hell on the Beach (1966) José Bénazéraf, Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Planchon, Georges Claess, Crime, Drama
Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Read More »
Stick (1985) Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Action, Crime, Drama
Ernest ‘Stick’ Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Read More »