Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself…
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Author Archives: rarefilm
China Venture (1953) Don Siegel, Edmond O’Brien, Barry Sullivan, Jocelyn Brando, Adventure, Drama, War
An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese guerilla. Read More »
Eat, Drink and Make Merrie (1969) Whit Boyd, Adarainne, Artie Brooks, Byron Lord, Comedy, Erotic
Merrie, a nymphomaniac, seduces every man in the family-operated boardinghouse while her younger sister Renée keeps watch. Read More »
Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Fantasy, Horror
Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn’t die, and disappears. Read More »
La mano de un hombre muerto / The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962) Jesús Franco, Ana Castor, Howard Vernon, Paula Martel, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the Austrian Alpine town of Holfen, a young woman is found murdered. Theo and Hansel, two wood-cutters, stop off at a bar where they tell Dr. Kalman, an academic studying local folk tales Read More »
Deadly Sins (1995) Michael Robison, David Keith, Alyssa Milano, Terry David Mulligan, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
New area deputy Jack Gales arrives on the island to find that a girl at the local Catholic girls’ school has been found dead. Read More »
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Drama
Dr. Gillespie’s cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She’s also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital. Read More »
Everybody Loves Sunshine / Busted (1999) Andrew Goth, Rachel Shelley, Clint Dyer, David Baker, Crime, Drama
Two toughs from the wrong side of the tracks in Manchester, choose different paths when they are released from prison. Read More »
The Killing Machine (1975) Noribumi Suzuki, Shin’ichi Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Makoto Satô, Action, Drama
Sonny Chiba plays the character referred to as “Mr Soh”, who is based on the true life founder of Shorinji Kempo, Doshin So. Mr Soh has been acting as a secret agent in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation. Read More »
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989) Yong-Kyun Bae, Yi Pan-Yong, Sin Won-Sop, Hae-Jin Huang, Drama
Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment – Hyegok calls him Kibong! Read More »