
The Butcher (known from Noe’s short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Utamaro’s World (1977) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. Read More »
Safari (1956) Terence Young, Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin

An expert African guide, Ken Duffield, thirsts for revenge against the leader of a gang of rebellious Mau Maus who killed his family while he was away. Read More »
Brother Rat (1938) William Keighley, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father. Read More »
70,000 Witnesses (1932) Ralph Murphy, Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles

College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody). Read More »
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 »