In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann
It’s 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. Read More »
Apache (1954) Robert Aldrich, Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Western
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. Read More »
Shark (1969) Samuel Fuller, Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Action, Adventure, Thriller
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he’s stuck there. Read More »
Warriors of Terra (2006) Robert Wilson, Edward Furlong, Ellen Furey, Andrea Lui, Horror, Sci-Fi
A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. Read More »
Moon Over Burma (1940) Louis King, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Adventure
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. Read More »
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) Mervyn LeRoy, Fernand Gravey, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Romance
Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Read More »
Hannibal Brooks (1969) Michael Winner, Oliver Reed, John Alderton, Michael J. Pollard, Comedy, Adventure, War, Action
In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a prison train to Germany.On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who’s obsessed with escaping. Read More »
Am Abend nach der Oper / In the Evening After the Opera (1945) Arthur Maria Rabenalt, Gusti Huber, Siegfried Breuer, Robert Lindner, Drama, Romance
This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. Read More »
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976) Chi-Hwa Chen, Jackie Chan, Chung-Erh Lung, Kang Chin, Action
Jackie witnesses his father’s death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique. Read More »