
College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody). Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
No Blood Relation (1932) Mikio Naruse, Yoshiko Okada, Shin’yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim – with the help of her gangster brother – the daughter she abandoned years before. Read More »
The Lodger (1944) John Brahm, Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders

In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. Read More »
Pride and Prejudice (1940) Robert Z. Leonard, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edward Ashley

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. Read More »
Lonelyhearts (1958) Vincent J. Donehue, Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, Robert Ryan

Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. Read More »
Panic in Bangkok (1964) André Hunebelle, Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Pier Angeli

A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats. Read More »
Get Crazy (1983) Allan Arkush, Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern

Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year’s 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Read More »
One Swedish Summer (1968) Gunnar Höglund, Hans Gustafsson, Lillemor Ohlsson, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother’s house. Read More »
The Woman from Tangier (1948) Harold Daniels, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Ian MacDonald

This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar. Read More »
Tlayucan (1962) Luis Alcoriza, Julio Aldama, Norma Angélica, Andrés Soler

A man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbors might lynch him. Read More »