
As a train speeds through the Arizona night, a man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Life Begins at 40 (1935) George Marshall, Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier

In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker Read More »
Upper World (1934) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers

A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him — she’s too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. Read More »
Kentucky Kernels (1934) George Stevens, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. Read More »
Those Days (1954) Sundaram Balachander, Shivaji Ganesan, Pandharibai, Jawar N. Sitaraman

The night after the Japanese bombing of Madras, Rajan (Sivaji Ganesan) a radio engineer, is murdered while preparing to leave town with a bag full of cash. Read More »
A Little Night Music (1977) Harold Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Read More »
Poets Pub (1949) Frederick Wilson, Derek Bond, Rona Anderson, James Robertson Justice

A struggling young poet in love manages a country inn, and thwarts a kidnapping attempt. Read More »
Crazy Thunder Road (1980) Gakuryû Ishii, Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Kôji Nanjô

When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the gang feels betrayed. Read More »
Scarecrow (1973) Jerry Schatzberg, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan

Max is an ex-con who’s been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who’s returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. Read More »
Night Moves (1975) Arthur Penn, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case Read More »