
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
This Earth is Mine (1959) Henry King, Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Drama

In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Read More »
The Man Who Envied Women (1985) Yvonne Rainer, Jackie Raynal, Anne Friedberg, Larry Loonin, Drama, Arthouse, Experimental

A broken marriage, artists’ housing in New York, and Central American politics, director Yvonne Rainer meanders through a lot of philosophical and rhetorical territory. Read More »
Routine Pleasures (1986) Patrick Amos, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Documentary

What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two story lines intersect in an attempt to recreate the past. Read More »
Night Unto Night (1949) Don Siegel, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Drama, Romance

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida’s east coast. Read More »
The Noose Hangs High (1948) Charles Barton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joseph Calleia, Comedy

Abbott and Costello are two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers that he sent to pick up $50,000. Read More »
The Lady Objects (1938) Erle C. Kenton, Gloria Stuart, Lanny Ross, Joan Marsh, Drama, Music, Romance

Ann Adams and William Hayward get married and she has a secretary’s job in a law office, while finishing her schooling, and she soon makes junior partner and is just a brilliant lawyer. Read More »
Fabiola (1949) Alessandro Blasetti, Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel Simon, Drama, History

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola’s father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena.
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Rise and Shine (1941) Allan Dwan, Jack Oakie, George Murphy, Linda Darnell, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance, Sport

Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited. Read More »
Girl in 313 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Florence Rice, Kent Taylor, Lionel Atwill, Crime, Drama, Romance

A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief. Read More »