
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks all sorts of complications. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Wild Company (1930) Leo McCarey, Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club. Read More »
The Desert Song (1953) H. Bruce Humberstone, Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Read More »
Princess Chang Ping (1976) John Woo, Kim Sung Lung, Shuet Shi Mui, Kim-Dan Chu

Love story of Princess Changping, the last princess of the Ming Dynasty in China. Read More »
A Wall of Silence (1993) Lita Stantic, Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa

A film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. Read More »
Reprisal! (1956) George Sherman, Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant

New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. Read More »
In the French Style (1963) Robert Parrish, Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet

A young American girl studying art in Paris can’t decide if she wants to stay or go back home. Read More »
Turnabout (1940) Hal Roach, Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life. Read More »
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) Barbara Kopple, Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks

This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Read More »
The House Across the Street (1949) Richard L. Bare, Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher Read More »