
As an elaborate joke, the wealthy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) hires actor William McFly (Cliff Robertson) to play his personal assistant Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Dishonored Lady (1947) Robert Stevenson, Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O’Keefe, John Loder, Crime, Drama

Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine by day and a lively party girl by night. Read More »
Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält / Mark of the Devil II (1973) Adrian Hoven, Erika Blanc, Anton Diffring, Percy Hoven, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders “witches” and “heretics” during the Inquisition. Read More »
The Black Dakotas (1954) Ray Nazarro, Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield, Action, War, Western

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. Read More »
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) J. Walter Ruben, Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce, Dennis O’Keefe, Western

An outlaw re-unites with his long-lost son, steers him away from a boxing career and sends him to law school. When his son returns, a lot has changed. Read More »
Le hérisson / The Hedgehog (2009) Mona Achache, Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Drama

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Read More »
Submarine Patrol (1938) John Ford, Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster, Adventure, Drama, War

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew. Read More »
Qui? / The Sensuous Assassin (1970) Léonard Keigel, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti, Mystery, Thriller

Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Read More »
Mad Love (1995) Antonia Bird, Chris O’Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Drama, Romance

The high-school student Matt Leland lives with his twin brother and sister and his father in a house by the lake. Read More »
The Buckskin Lady (1957) Carl K. Hittleman, Patricia Medina, Richard Denning, Gerald Mohr, Western

Dr. Bruce Merritt is enticed to Bitter Water by ‘Doc’ Medley, a phony poker swindler, who persuades Merritt to pay him $250 for the use of his ‘medical practice.’ Read More »