American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the “regulares” in the 1916 Mexican revolution. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tales of Canterbury (1973) John W. Shadow, Patrizia Adiutori, Rik Battaglia, Shirley Corrigan
Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn. Read More »
The Gay Divorcee (1934) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. Read More »
Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves Read More »
Rage (1995) Joseph Merhi, Gary Daniels, Kenneth Tigar, Fiona Hutchison
A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army. Read More »
Passing fancy (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ohinata
After the death of his wife, a man struggles to raise his son in nearly overwhelming poverty. Read More »
Chasing Butterflies (1992) Otar Iosseliani, Narda Blanchet, Pierette Pompom Bailhache, Aleksandr Cherkasov
A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants. Read More »
Twentieth Century (1934) Howard Hawks, John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors Read More »
The Men (1950) Fred Zinnemann, Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane
Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. Read More »
Amok (1934) Fyodor Otsep, Marcelle Chantal, Jean Yonnel, Valéry Inkijinoff
Dr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Read More »