
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 »
Author Archives: rarefilm
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 »
Susan and God (1940) George Cukor, Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, Drama, Comedy

Susan Trexel is a rich socialite, who while vacationing in Europe experiences a spiritual transformation. Read More »
N. Took the Dice (1971) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Drama, Horror

A reshuffling of Grillet’s Eden and afterwards, the name an anagram of the film Read More »
Whispering Footsteps (1943) Howard Bretherton, John Hubbard, Rita Quigley, Joan Blair, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

A bank clerk in a small town returns home from a vacation in Indianapolis, and hears a story on the radio about a girl found murdered there. Read More »
The Wrong Man (1956) Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero – Manny to his friends – is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. Read More »
The Pied Piper (1942) Irving Pichel, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Drama

Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing vacation in southern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Read More »
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) George Fitzmaurice, Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, Mystery, Crime

A girl and a man Trying to find a lady’s affection: the customary love trio? Read More »