
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Carol Reed, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert

William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »
The 13th Letter (1951) Otto Preminger, Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie

Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships. Read More »
The Secret of the Telegian (1960) Jun Fukuda, Kôji Tsuruta, Yumi Shirakawa, Seizaburô Kawazu

Detectives must stop a homicidal madman called the “Telegian” from his killing rampage Read More »
Secret Agent of Japan (1942) Irving Pichel, Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison

Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen Read More »
Rififí en la ciudad (1963) Jesús Franco, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jean Servais, Laura Granados

In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election Read More »
Me and the Colonel (1958) Peter Glenville, Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey

Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Read More »
Fly High Run Far (1991) Kwon-taek Im, Duk-wha Lee, Hye-yeong Lee, Seok-gu Lee

In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. Read More »
Carnival (1946) Stanley Haynes, Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway

A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth. Read More »
Gunfighters (1947) George Waggner, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart

Gunfighter “Brazos” Kane lays aside his guns “forever” when he is forced to shoot his best friend Read More »