
Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tess (1979) Roman Polanski, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson

Wessex County, England during the Victorian era. Christian values dominate what are social mores. Read More »
The Champ (1931) King Vidor, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper

Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy “Champ” Purcell Read More »
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) Herbert L. Strock, Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton

Professor Frankenstein, a university lecturer with an alligator pit under his house Read More »
Wisdom (1986)

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend (Moore) embark on a cross-country Read More »
The High and the Mighty (1954) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day

One disaster after another happens on this trans-Pacific flight. Read More »
Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Ted Post, Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith

A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their Read More »
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)

When Stuart Shorter – a homeless alcoholic with a violent past – meets writer Read More »
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959) César Fernández Ardavín, Marco Paoletti, Juanjo Menéndez, Carlos Casaravilla

An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo Read More »
Journal of a Crime (1934) William Keighley, Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd

A wife shoots her husband’s mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime. Read More »