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Author Archives: rarefilm
East Side, West Side (1927) Allan Dwan, George O’Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Drama, Romance, Sport

Following his mom and stepfather were murdered in a barge crash, John Breen is rescued from a East Side toughs from the Lipvitches. Read More »
The Woman Who Dared (1944) Jean Grémillon, Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Jean Debucourt, Drama

Within this uplifting romantic play, the spouse of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the notion of flying herself. Read More »
The True Glory (1945) Garson Kanin, Carol Reed, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Fallon, Robert Harris, Documentary, War

British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. Read More »
The Major and the Minor (1942) Billy Wilder, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Comedy, Romance

New York working woman Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but doesn’t have the railroad fare so that she disguises herself as a kid to ride half an hour. Read More »
The Power and the Glory (1933) William K. Howard, Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Drama

A guy’s life is retold only after his funeral. Starting as a monitor walker, Tom Garner climbed through all kinds of railroad jobs to go the corporation. Read More »
The Last Gasp (1995) Ingmar Bergman, Ingvar Kjellson, Björn Granath, Anna von Rosen, Drama, Documentary

A fictional meeting at the headquarter of the Swedish Film Industry between the former director Georg af Klercker and the business man behind SF (Svensk film): Director Charles Magnusson. Read More »
Its a Bet (1935) Alexander Esway, Gene Gerrard, Helen Chandler, Judy Kelly, Comedy, Drama

A young English reporter makes a wager with a rich publisher he can vanish for a month. Read More »
Hitlers Hollywood (2017) Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Zarah Leander, Documentary

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed. Read More »
Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy – Disc Six (1935-38) Vitaphone in TECHNICOLOR!, Comedy, Musical, Short

In 1926, Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone branch made movie history with its “sound-on-disc” recording process, and the studio-within-a-studio would go on to make a variety of short subjects Read More »