Eminent psychologist Dr. Brenner (Erwin Kalser) invites cartoonist Bill Harrison (Allyn Joslyn) along with his spouse, Jack (Evelyn Keyes), into a feast honoring war refugees. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) Robert Florey, Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance
At 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young girls and injects them with ape bloodstream in an effort to establish ape-human kinship. Read More »
Big Business (1988) Jim Abrahams, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Comedy
From the 1940s at the little town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of twins have been born at precisely the exact same hospital on precisely the exact same night. Read More »
Midway (1976) Jack Smight, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Action, Drama, History, War
He summer of 1942 attracted Naval stalemate into the Pacific since the Japanese and American fleets stood even numbers each waiting for another to start a renewed offensive. Read More »
Johnny Angel (1945) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Johnny Angel sets out to find out who chased a gold shipment out of his dad’s boat and murdered his father, the captain. Read More »
Knight Moves (1992) Carl Schenkel, Christopher Lambert, Tom Skerritt, Diane Lane, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A chess grandmaster is at a huge tournament, and if his lover has been found painted and the blood drained from her body he becomes a main suspect. Read More »
Skullduggery (1970) Gordon Douglas, Richard Wilson, Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Adventure
An expedition to the interior of Papua New Guinea comes along with a tribe of ape-like men and women that may or might not be ancestors of ancient man. Read More »
Employees Entrance (1933) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Drama, Romance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical director of a New York department store in fiscal straits. Read More »
Belle toujours (2006) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trêpa, Drama, Music
Belle toujours happened to me suddenly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I had been happy to have discovered a means to accomplish this, Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama, History, War
A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »