Kirk Bennett is falsely sentenced to death for killing blackmailer Mavis Marlowe, ex-wife of nice-guy drunk Martin Blair. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
La Habanera / Cheated by the Wind (1937) Douglas Sirk, Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Drama, Musical
Astrée Sternhjelm is visiting Puerto Rico with her aunt Ana, and is enchanted by the island. Read More »
The Last Train from Madrid (1937) James P. Hogan, Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Drama
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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Big Town Girl (1937) Alfred L. Werker, Claire Trevor, Donald Woods, Alan Dinehart, Drama, Comedy
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the “Masked Countess”, because he estranged husband is a crook. Read More »
The Chairman (1969) J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Action, Drama, Thriller
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. Read More »
Along Came Jones (1945) Stuart Heisler, Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Comedy, Romance, Western
Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. Read More »
The Gambler (1974) Karel Reisz, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Crime, Drama
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.
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Deprisa, deprisa / Faster, Faster (1981) Carlos Saura, Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias, Crime, Drama
Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Read More »
Ken (1964) Kenji Misumi, Raizô Ichikawa, Yûsuke Kawazu, Hisaya Morishige, Drama
Interesting story about a young man obsessed by kendo. Kokubu is a university student and has just been made captain of the kendo team, just ahead of Kagawa. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Boris Sagal, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee
In this mystery, Holmes pursues his archenemy Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Read More »