
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Narrow Corner (1933) Alfred E. Green, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Patricia Ellis, Ralph Bellamy, Drama

Fred, an Englishmen, (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) , wanted for murder, winds up on a fishing boat in The South Seas, run by Nichols. Read More »
Storm Fear (1955) Cornel WildeJean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother’s mountain retreat. Read More »
Green Hell (1940) James Whale, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, Adventure, Romance

A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. Read More »
The Merry Widow (1925) Erich von Stroheim, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy, Drama, Romance

Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O’Hara. His uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco forbids the marriage because she is a commoner. Read More »
Queen Kelly (1929) Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Drama

Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy. Read More »
The Beginning and the End (1993) Arturo Ripstein, Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Drama

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father’s death. Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys Read More »
The Field (1990) Jim Sheridan, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Drama, Thriller

“Bull” McCabe’s family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land. Read More »
Three Cases of Murder (1955) David Eady, George More O’Ferrall, Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Fantasy

Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Read More »