A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor -three characters, two couples- attend a grand literary cocktail party. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Black Market Baby (1977) Robert Day, Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz Jr., Jessica Walter, Drama
A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby’s father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.
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Boots Malone (1952) William Dieterle, William Holden, Stanley Clements, Basil Ruysdael, Drama, Sport
Boots Malone is jockey’s agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. Read More »
The Deerslayer (1957) Kurt Neumann, Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Adventure, War, Western
In the wilderness of early Colonial days, trapper Tom Hutter lives with his two daughters in an isolated floating fort. Read More »
Duffy of San Quentin (1954) Walter Doniger, Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly, Crime, Drama
Based on the book and the reflections of San Quentin Prison Warden Clinton T. Duffy, the film is episodic and rambling in nature but, unlike most prison dramas, there are touches of humor. Read More »
The Bay Boy (1984) Daniel Petrie, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Drama
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? Read More »
Safari Drums (1953) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Barbara Bestar, Emory Parnell, Adventure
A bunch of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife. One of their party kills a geologist and Bomba the Jungle Boy must find out whodunnit. Read More »
The Spiral Road (1962) Robert Mulligan, Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Adventure
An arrogant young doctor helps an eccentric older doctor care for natives in the Dutch West Indies circa 1936. Read More »
Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama
James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
Rivers and Tides (2001) Thomas Riedelsheimer, Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy, Documentary
Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Finnish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors Read More »