
Singer Denny Martin’s marriage to telephone operator Mary Wilson has been postponed several times already and is delayed once again when he changes jobs from singing telegrams to being a singing cab driver. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Boy from Stalingrad (1943) Sidney Salkow, Tay Garnett, Bobby Samarzich, Conrad Binyon, Mary Lou Harrington, Drama, War

Russian children out in the fields gathering grain find themselves in the path of the invading German army making its way to Stalingrad, a target city of their onslaught. Read More »
Song of the Islands (1942) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Comedy, Musical, Romance

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O’Brien. Read More »
Mutiny (1952) Edward Dmytryk, Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Action, Adventure

Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. Read More »
Frantic (1988) Roman Polanski, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. Read More »
Passport to Treason (1956) Robert S. Baker, Rod Cameron, Lois Maxwell, Clifford Evans, Mystery, Film-Noir

While investigating the mysterious death of a friend, a man discovers a peace organization is the front for a crime syndicate. Based on the novel of the same name by Manning O’Brien. Read More »
City Of Fear (1959) Irving Lerner, Vince Edwards, Lyle Talbot, John Archer, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Vicious drug dealer Vince Ryker escapes from San Quentin with another prisoner after stabbing a guard to death and stealing what he believes to be a cannister filled with experimental heroin from the prison hospital. Read More »
Progeny (1998) Brian Yuzna, Arnold Vosloo, Jillian McWhirter, Brad Dourif, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population. Read More »
Rottweiler (2004) Brian Yuzna, William Miller, Irene Montalà, Paulina Gálvez, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

In 2018, in Spain, the prisoner Dante (William Miller) escapes from a prison and is chased by a robot dog. Read More »
Optimisti / The Optimists (2006) Goran Paskaljevic, Lazar Ristovski, Bojana Novakovic, Petar Bozovic, Drama

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire’s Candide: “Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad.”
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