
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Ouanga (1936) George Terwilliger, Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage. Read More »
Gotham (1988) Lloyd Fonvielle, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Colin Bruce

Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Read More »
The Crimson Pirate (1952) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. Read More »
Confidentially Connie (1953) Edward Buzzell, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »
She Couldn’t Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt

A wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl. Read More »
True to the Navy (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green

While sailors are know far and wide as having a girl in every port, all of the sailors in the Pacific Fleet appear to have the same girl when in their home-port of San Diego Read More »
The Story of Three Loves (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron

Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. Read More »
Eye of the Cat (1975) Alberto Bevilacqua, Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Eli Wallach

In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man’s wife as his own. Read More »
The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke

In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »