
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d’Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques’ own teen daughter, Françoise. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Orders to Kill (1958) Anthony Asquith, Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Film-Noir, Drama, War

A grounded American figter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis. Read More »
Valley of Hunted Men (1942) John English, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Drama, Western

It’s 1941 and three Nazis escape from a Canadian prison. Two are killed but the third kills Paul Schiller and assumes his identity. Read More »
The Green Man (1956) Robert Day, Basil Dearden, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Comedy

Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. Read More »
The Bat (1959) Crane Wilbur, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Read More »
I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975) Peter Sasdy, Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates, Horror

A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Read More »
Dark Odyssey (1961) William Kyriakis, Radley Metzger, Athan Karras, Jeanne Jerrems, David Hooks, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Yianni Martakis, a sailor immigrant in New York City, is on a mission to find and kill the man who raped his sister. Read More »
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972) Dick Richards, Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Western

Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. Read More »
Enemy Agent (1940) Lew Landers, Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, Robert Armstrong, Adventure, Mystery

A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are. Read More »
Crimewave (1985) Sam Raimi, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Comedy, Crime, Horror

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. Read More »