
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Comanche (1956) George Sherman, Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Romance, Western

Indian scout Jim Read is picked by his commander to set up a meeting between Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and a representative from Washington to negotiate a peace treaty. Read More »
Heroic Trio (1993) Johnnie To, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Action, Fantasy

The all-female Heroic Trio are Tung (Wonder Woman), Chat (Thief Catcher), a mercenary, and Ching (Invisible Woman). Read More »
Shen nu / The Goddess (1934) Yonggang Wu, Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang, Drama

An unnamed devoted mother sells herself by night on the streets of Shanghai in order to support herself and her infant son. Read More »
The Leech Woman (1960) Edward Dein, Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

When a very old African woman offers an ambitious endocrinologist the secret of eternal youth, he decides to take his estranged and no-longer-young-and-beautiful wife along with him on the safari. Read More »
The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972) Martin Goldman, Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Western

A slave kills a white man in self-defense and heads West towards freedom, pursued by a professional slave hunter. Read More »
Karayuki-san / The Making of a Prostitute (1975) Shôhei Imamura, Kurahachi Fukuda, Tora Hirano, Documentary

It is a documentary on one of the Japanese “karayuki-san,” who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Read More »
Apachen (1973) Gottfried Kolditz, Gojko Mitic, Milan Beli, Colea Rautu, Western

In Northern Mexico, the Apache tribe have negotiated an agreement, granting passage over their land to the Mexicans in exchange for food. Read More »
Bermuda Mystery (1944) Benjamin Stoloff, Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Mystery

Preston Foster is a private detective who gets mixed up with a somewhat ditzy Ann Rutherford. It seems she thinks her uncle was murdered. Read More »
Destination Unknown (1942) Ray Taylor, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Sam Levene, Drama, Romance, War

In Shanghai, Elena Varnoff attempts to learn the secret of the priceless-and-hidden St. Petersburg from Karl Renner, an Axiz agent working with the Japanese. Read More »