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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist Read More »
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) J. Lee Thompson, Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O’Neill, Margot Kidder

When college professor Peter Proud begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation Read More »
Lilith (1964) Robert Rossen, Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda

Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. Read More »
The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Robert Florey, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland

In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country Read More »
Juke Girl (1942) Curtis Bernhardt, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf

Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Read More »
Reconversion (2012) Thom Andersen

Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »
The Red Tent (1969) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Mario Adorf

The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
Dr. Crippen (1963) Robert Lynn, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne

A dramatization of Britain’s notorious Crippen murder case. American-born Hawley Harvey Crippen (nicknamed “Peter”), a mild-mannered Read More »
Here Come the Marines (1952) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hanley Stafford

The boys get drafted into the Marines. On their first day in basic training, their commanding officer discovers that Sach’s dad is an old war buddy of his Read More »