
Lord Southmere escapes from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X” Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart

The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
Riff-Raff (1947) Ted Tetzlaff, Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys

A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. Read More »
The Trip to Tilsit / Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Anna Dammann

From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau’s Sunrise Read More »
Novo (2002) Jean-Pierre Limosin, Eduardo Noriega, Anna Mouglalis, Paz Vega

Those who loved Graham yesterday shouldn’t count on today. Those who love him today risk being heartbroken tomorrow… Read More »
Il diavolo / The Devil (1963) Gian Luigi Polidoro, Alberto Sordi, Gunilla Elm-Tornkvist, Anne-Charlotte Sjöberg

Sordi gives a deep and touching comic performance as an Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden Read More »
5 Branded Women (1960) Martin Ritt, Van Heflin, Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed Read More »
Legend of the Champions (1983) Cyril Frankel, Stuart Damon, Colin Blakely, Alexandra Bastedo

A secret agent is interrogated by his superiors on suspicion of being a double agent Read More »
Riffraff (1936) J. Walter Ruben, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job Read More »
Yan zhi kou / Rouge (1987) Stanley Kwan, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong’s “flower houses” – bordellos and night clubs of the 1930’s. Read More »