
Divorced Ethnologist John Parker loves his two boys, Al and Terry, and misses them terribly when they have to leave his archaeological dig at the end of the summer. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Wait Until Dark (1967) Terence Young, Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Susy was recently blinded and recently married. Susy’s husband, Sam, is asked to hold a doll for a woman he doesn’t know as they get off an airplane. Read More »
La Blonde aux seins nus / The Blonde with Bare Breasts (2010) Manuel Pradal, Vahina Giocante, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Steve Le Roi, Adventure, Drama, Romance

The two brothers Julien (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and Louis (Steve Le Roi) work on their father’s steel barge, which he won’t let them inherit. Read More »
Cinderella (1957) Ralph Nelson, Julie Andrews, Ilka Chase, Edie Adams, Musical, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Believed lost since its one-night-only television broadcast in March of 1957, the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s made-for-TV musical features then-rising Broadway star Julie Andrews Read More »
Adiós Amigo (1976) Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor, James Brown, Action, Comedy, Western

Hold your horses and hang on to your hat. Richard Pryor and Fred Williamson are riding into town in the funniest, wildest western this side of the Rio Grande. Read More »
The Criminal Code (1931) Howard Hawks, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Crime, Drama, Romance

A wily D.A.(Brady) gets a 10 year conviction of a young 20 year old (Robert Graham)who he knows killed a man in self defense. Read More »
Double Confession (1950) Ken Annakin, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, Crime, Drama

When his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers. Read More »
The Devil and Miss Sarah (1971) Michael Caffey, Gene Barry, Janice Rule, James Drury, Horror, Western

A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man’s wife to try to possess her and help him escape. Read More »
Das fidele Gefängnis / The Merry Jail (1917) Ernst Lubitsch, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Paul Biensfeldt, Comedy

Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance

When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »