
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Its a Great Feeling (1949) David Butler, Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

A waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. Read More »
Io Island (1977) Ki-young Kim, Hwa-shi Lee, Jeong-cheol Kim, Yun-seok Choi

An investor planning on developing a tourist resort begins an investigation into the legends of the mysterious Io Island in the hope of exploiting its unspoiled beauty. Read More »
Fire Woman (1971) Ki-young Kim, Kung-won Nam, Gye-hyeon Jeon, Yuh Jung Youn

The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household. Read More »
Chelsea Girls (1966) Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin, Randy Borscheidt, Christian Päffgen

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City Read More »
The Second Woman (1950) James V. Kern, Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton

In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Read More »
The Big Night (1951) Joseph Losey, John Drew Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring

George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. Read More »
Sword for Hire (1952) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Rentarô Mikuni, Danshirô Ichikawa

Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Read More »
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (2017) Nobuhiro Suwa, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Pauline Etienne, Jules Langlade

Jean, a veteran actor trapped by his past, is installed in secret in an abandoned mansion in the South of France where Juliette Read More »
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) John Guillermin, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole

London at the turn of the century in 1901. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Read More »