
Etzel, the son of prosecutor Wolf Andergast, finds that eight years ago his dad condemned Léonard Maurizius into a lifetime sentence for the murder of his wife Elisabeth. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Swing Shift (1984) Jonathan Demme, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Drama, Romance, War

Jack and Kay Walsh are typical of couples of the 1940s, in which he’s the breadwinner and she the housewife determined upon him to perform the guy’s duties around the home. Read More »
Hamsun (1996) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Biography, Drama, War

Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »
Tall in the Saddle (1944) Edwin L. Marin, John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, Mystery, Western, Romance

When a stranger arrives at a western city he discovers the rancher who sent him was killed. Read More »
Murder in the Cathedral (1951) George Hoellering, John Groser, Alexander Gauge, David Ward, Drama

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation Read More »
The Choirboys (1977) Robert Aldrich, Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Comedy, Crime, Drama

A group of Los Angeles cops opt to take off a few of the pressures of the jobs by participating in a variety of kinds of following hours debauchery. Read More »
The Phantom of Liberty (1974) Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Comedy

This surrealist film is made up of series of only vaguely connected episodes, most beautifully the dinner party scene where individuals sit lavatories around a dinner table Read More »
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986) Pierre Clémenti, Achmi Gachem, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Drama, Thriller

Necrocity, a town of every terrors and also a place where even the government appear to fortify this particular state of mayhem Read More »
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) Louis King, Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An X-ray machine shows the existence of a corpse in an Egyptian sarcophagus. Read More »
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden, Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Charlie’s trip to Paris, apparently a holiday, is truly a mission to explore a bond-forgery racket. Read More »