
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Pollyanna (1960) David Swift, Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Drama, Family

A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. Read More »
The Missing Scientists (1955) Steve Sekely, Paul Campbell, Irene Papas, Kurt Kreuger, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Two international atomic scientists working in London go missing in mysterious circumstances. Read More »
Gun for a Coward (1957) Abner Biberman, Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Western

A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice Read More »
Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) Riccardo Freda, Georges Marchal, Gianna Maria Canale, Renato Baldini, Adventure, Drama, Romance

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. Read More »
Rosemarys Baby (1968) Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Drama, Horror

Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. Read More »
Burma Convoy (1941) Noel M. Smith, Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Charles Bickford plays the boss of a group of American truck drivers on the Burma Road. Read More »
Woman in Hiding (1950) Michael Gordon, Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller

Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Portrait of a Nude Woman (1981) Nino Manfredi, Alberto Lattuada, Eleonora Giorgi, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Comedy, Romance

Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. Read More »