Follows the arrival of Greta Garbo in Hollywood, and her ill fated affair with fellow star John Gilbert. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Man of La Mancha (1972) Arthur Hiller, Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Read More »
Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Read More »
Author! Author! (1982) Arthur Hiller, Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Comedy, Drama, Family
Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want rewrites. Read More »
Jet Storm (1959) Cy Endfield, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Thriller
Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. Read More »
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes / Jive Turkey (1974) Bill Brame, Frank DeKova, Paul Harris, Frances E. Williams, Crime, Thriller
It’s a turf battle over the mean streets of Harlem between Italian mobsters and the black hoodlums living in the neighborhood run by “Big Tony” (Frank DeKove). Read More »
Stalag 17 (1953) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Drama, War
One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Read More »
Baby Face Nelson (1957) Don Siegel, Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After being released from prison, Nelson goes to work for mob boss Rocca (Ted De Corsia), who eventually recognizes that a madman is in his service and turns him in to the cops. Read More »
The President Vanishes (1934) William A. Wellman, Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron, Paul Kelly, Drama
Like the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war. Read More »
Smashing the Spy Ring (1938) Christy Cabanne, Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Drama, Mystery
At Duncan Aircraft, John Baxter and Ted Hall, government agents impersonating factory employees, capture Quirk, a spy whose real name is Schuster. Read More »