
Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
A Warm Corner (1930) Victor Saville, Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher, Austin Melford, Comedy, Romance

This early Gainsborough flick is truly a lost treasure, and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. Read More »
Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi / Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966) Harald Philipp, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Götz George, Western, Adventure

On her 21st birthday, settler Mac Haller’s daughter Apanatschi receives her father’s secret gold mine as a gift. Read More »
Follow Me! / The Public Eye (1972) Carol Reed, Mia Farrow, Topol, Michael Jayston, Comedy, Drama

When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. Read More »
The Music Man (1962) Morton DaCosta, Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy’s marching band Read More »
The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Ken Annakin, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dinah Sheridan, Comedy

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. Read More »
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) Robert Altman, Eric Bogosian, Jeff Daniels, Brad Davis, Drama, War

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel “The Caine Mutiny”. Read More »
O Anjo Nasceu / The Angel Was Born (1969) Júlio Bressane, Norma Bengell, Hugo Carvana, Neville de Almeida, Crime

Urtiga and Santamaria are two mean, sadistic and cold blood killers. Santamaria claims that he has seen an angel, and is very mystic. Read More »
Le livre de Marie / The Book of Mary (1985) Anne-Marie Miéville, Bruno Cremer, Aurore Clément, Rebecca Hampton, Short, Drama

Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. His parents will separate. The perception of his universe is profoundly disturbed. Read More »
Criminal Lawyer (1951) Seymour Friedman, Pat O’Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance

James Ragan, a brilliant criminal lawyer is fed up with his lucrative practice and longs to retire to a quiet judgeship Read More »