Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in an attempt to go straight. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Last Starfighter (1984) Nick Castle, Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After finally achieving the high score on Starfighter, his favorite arcade game, everyday teenager Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) meets the game’s designer Read More »
Walk the Dark Street (1956) Wyott Ordung, Chuck Connors, Don Ross, Regina Gleason, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Dan (Don Ross) returns to L.A. having fought in the Korean War. He meets with Frank (Chuck Connors) the brother of Tommy who was one of the men killed under Dan’s command. Read More »
Shield for Murder (1954) Howard W. Koch, Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A vicious cop kills a bookie’s runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep the money to buy a new home for his would-be lounge singer girlfriend. Read More »
Off the Record (1939) James Flood, Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Drama
Blondell and O’Brien star as newspaper reporters who inadvertently send Jordan to reform school after they write an expose of the illegal slot-machine racket the boy was a spotter for. Read More »
Force of Evil (1948) Abraham Polonsky, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. Read More »
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942) Alfred Santell, Dorothy Lamour, Richard Denning, Jack Haley, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young girl’s parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. Read More »
Atlantic City (1980) Louis Malle, Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Crime, Drama, Romance
Dreams. Becoming an Atlantic City croupier will help Sally realize her dream of going to Monte Carlo Read More »
Miami Blues (1990) George Armitage, Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. Read More »
Shipmates (1931) Harry A. Pollard, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
The handsome young seaman John Paul Jones falls in love with Kit Corbin. Kit is the daughter of admiral Ben Corbin. Read More »