
Gambler and bookmaker “Odds” Owen decides that the insurance racket is a business that offers better odds and less risk, and this appeals to him and he sets up shop. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Holiday Affair (1949) Don Hartman, Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed. Read More »
Enemy of Women (1944) Alfred Zeisler, Claudia Drake, Wolfgang Zilzer, Donald Woods

Young Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt. Read More »
Back Stab (1990) Jim Kaufman, James Brolin, Dorothée Berryman, Meg Foster

Cliff Murphy is a lonely widow architect still grieving the death of his wife Anne. Read More »
The Doctor of Stalingrad AKA Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958) Géza von Radványi, O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer

After Stalingrad battle battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. Read More »
Mad at the World (1955) Harry Essex, Frank Lovejoy, Keefe Brasselle, Cathy O’Donnell

The infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after been hit by a bottle thrown by a gang of juvenile-delinquent hoodlums known as the Wolf Pack. Read More »
Bury Me Dead (1947) Bernard Vorhaus, Cathy O’Donnell, June Lockhart, Hugh Beaumont

Barbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin Read More »
Stranger on the Run (1967) Don Siegel, Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks

In search of a woman, the washed-up alcoholic vagabond and former convict, Ben Chamberlain, ends up in a god-forsaken and dusty railhead town Read More »
Machine Gun McCain (1969) Giuliano Montaldo, John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk

Tough criminal Hank McCain gets released from prison after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Read More »
Dames (1934) Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler

Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against ‘filthy’ forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. Read More »