
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) John Sturges, William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe

A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business Read More »
The Crusades (1935) Cecil B. DeMille, Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith

The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France Read More »
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) Henry Hathaway, Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans. Read More »
Navy Wife (1935) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell

Hawaiian naval nurse Trevor weds widowed officer Bellamy partly because he has a crippled daughter. Read More »
Betrayed (1988) Costa-Gavras, Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard

Following the murder of a radio personality in Chicago, all evidence of the crime points to a white supremacist group from Iowa. Read More »
Crime Ring (1938) Leslie Goodwins, Allan Lane, Frances Mercer, Clara Blandick

Newspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. Read More »
Butterflies Are Free (1972) Milton Katselas, Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart

All Don Baker wants is a place of his own away from his over-protective mother. Read More »
Alibi (1929) Roland West, Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch

Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. Read More »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist Read More »