Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo – Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam – The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris – France (L’homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel). Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Le mani sulla città / Hands Over the City (1963) Francesco Rosi, Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Drama
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal. Read More »
Where There’s a Will (1955) Vernon Sewell, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Leslie Dwyer, Comedy
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don’t want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown. Read More »
The Exile (1947) Max Ophüls, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Rita Corday, Adventure, Romance
Maria Montez was accorded top billing in this film by contractual agreement, although she is in the picture only long enough to take a bath in a tricky 17th century Read More »
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985) Don Taylor, Duncan Regehr, Adrian Aron, James Bacon, Biography, Drama
Based on Errol Flynn’s lurid autobiography, this is a TV drama from the 80’s. Read More »
My Son, My Son! (1940) Charles Vidor, Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, Drama, Romance
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten Read More »
Mask of Dust (1954) Terence Fisher, Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, Peter Illing, Adventure, Action, Drama
Peter Wells, a former world class driver of midget racers, has been struggling to regain his winning form in the two years since his discharge as an Air Force pilot. Read More »
Man from God’s Country (1958) Paul Landres, George Montgomery, Randy Stuart, Gregg Barton, Western
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. Read More »
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954) Edward Bernds, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with the Gravesend Family which has one Creepy Butler Read More »
Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963) Giorgio Mangiamele, Comedy
In Ninety-Nine Percent, Mangiamele’s only comedy, Italian widower Joseph Pino and his young son Peter live a chaotic and deeply opposed life. Read More »