Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Julia Has Two Lovers (1990) Bashar Shbib, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day. Read More »
Crazy Knights / Ghost Crazy (1944) William Beaudine, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, Maxie Rosenbloom, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Three goofy guys (Shemp Howard, Billy Gilbert, Maxie Rosenbloom) run into ghosts, a gorilla and a haunted house. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Film Before Film (1986) Werner Nekes, Documentary
An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the “prehistory” of cinema. Read More »
Fire Down Below (1957) Robert Parrish, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Adventure, Drama
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Read More »
Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki, Biography, Drama
In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
Crazy House (1943) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Cass Daley, Comedy, Musical
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. Read More »