
Circus animal trainer Wallace Beery (as “Windy” O’Shaughnessy) shows son “Spanky” McFarland (as “Stubby”) how to train a lion cub while well-proportioned wife and mother Leona Maricle (as Cora) thrills audiences on the flying trapeze. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Combat d’amour en songe / Love Torn in a Dream (2000) Raoul Ruiz, Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Drama, Fantasy

Nine strange stories merge to form a visual fantasy. Someone steals a work of art of painting, a mirror has the power to steal reflecting the future Read More »
Trauma (1962) Robert M. Young, John Conte, David Garner, Lorrie Richards, Thriller, Mystery, Horror

Emmaline, who, as a teenager, discovered the drowned body of her aunt (Lynn Bari), returns to the family mansion as a married woman. Read More »
Dúvad / The Brute (1961) Zoltán Fábri, Ferenc Bessenyei, Tibor Bitskey, Mária Medgyesi, Drama

This drama about a boorish non-conformist takes place in Hungary after the war and is dulled a little by political overtones but is still an engaging story. Read More »
Young Blood (1932) Phil Rosen, Bob Steele, Helen Foster, Charles King, Western

Nick is a modern day Robin Hood. But he has to split with his gang and the crooked Sheriff. Read More »
The Chapman Report (1962) George Cukor, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Drama, Romance

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women Read More »
You Can’t Fool Your Wife (1940) Ray McCarey, Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote, Comedy, Romance

Andrew and Clara are school sweethearts whose marriage goes stale after five years. Andrew is a hard worker at the firm, but it seems that all he does is work. Read More »
His Excellency (1952) Robert Hamer, Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Comedy

An ex dock-worker is appointed governor of a Mediterranean colony of the British Empire. Read More »
Lies My Father Told Me (1975) Ján Kadár, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Yossi Yadin, Drama

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won’t work.
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The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948) Maclean Rogers, Derek Farr, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott, Crime, Drama

Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. Read More »