
“Chick” Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names “Poochy.” Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tranquille donne di campagna (1980) Claudio Giorgi, Silvia Dionisio, Philippe Leroy, Carmen Scarpitta

In una tenuta della campagna padana ai tempi del fascismo vivono: Guido Maldini, che l’amministra per conto di sua cugina Floriana, ex attrice d’operetta, e costei; Read More »
Too Young to Kiss (1951) Robert Z. Leonard, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young

Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa

After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Countdown to Doomsday (1966) Marcello Baldi, George Ardisson, Pascale Audret, Christa Linder

NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas. Read More »
Love Letters (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant

France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson Read More »
The Music of Chance (1993) Philip Haas, James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh

Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Read More »
La notte dell’alta marea (1977) Luigi Scattini, Anthony Steel, Annie Belle, Hugo Pratt

Richard Butler is the director of a Montreal advertising agency. When he meets Dyanne, a young beautiful model, he falls in love. Read More »
La ragazza dalla pelle di luna (1974) Luigi Scattini, Ugo Pagliai, Beba Loncar, Giacomo Rossi Stuart

Albert is an engineer, Helen is a photographer for magazines chic. The two have been married for a few years, but their marriage through a period of crisis. Read More »
Smart Money (1931) Alfred E. Green, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp

Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game Read More »