The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Cops are Robbers / Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990) Paul Wendkos, Ray Sharkey, Edward Asner, George Kennedy, Crime, Drama
This fun, intriguing action flick tells the tale of a ragtag group of disillusioned Boston police officers who, in 1980, got together and pulled one of the largest bank heists in American history. Read More »
Hell Bound (1957) William J. Hole Jr., John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. Read More »
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950) Gordon Douglas, Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Read More »
Kyo mo mata kakute ari nan / Thus Another Day (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Drama, Romance
A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home while an unpaid mortgage force the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband’s boss. Read More »
Kono ten no niji / The Eternal Rainbow (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Takahiro Tamura, Drama
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker. Read More »
The Private Navy of Sgt. OFarrell (1968) Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Comedy, War
Sgt. O’Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women and beer. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (2011) Andrea Arnold, Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Drama, Romance
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
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The Letter (1929) Jean de Limur, Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Read More »
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957) Arnold Laven, Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men gun down Solly Pitts, ‘rebel’ against the racket-ridden Longshoremen’s Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife ‘Cockeye’ Cook was one of the killers…but won’t repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. Read More »