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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Raoul Walsh, Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie

Set in the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Read More »
Even Solomon (1979) Roger Bamford, Colin Douglas, Derek Farr, Catherine Hall

Everyone seems to have a theory about young Stephen’s private life. Read More »
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) Aris Iliopulos, Billy Zane, Tippi Hedren, Ron Perlman

A cross-dressing mental patient escapes from an asylum and robs a bank. Read More »
Time Without Pity (1957) Joseph Losey, Michael Redgrave

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Read More »
Disturbed (1990) Charles Winkler, Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Pointer

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn’t resist the beauty of a young patient Read More »
The Lady in the Morgue (1938) Otis Garrett, Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis, Frank Jenks

Believing that the body of Alice Ross, found hanging in a disreputable hotel Read More »
Kiku to Isamu (1959) Tadashi Imai, Emiko Takahashi, Tanie Kitabayashi, George Okunoyama

Immediately after the Second World War, sister Kiku and brother Isamu, whose mother Read More »
Jim, the World’s Greatest (1975) Don Coscarelli, Craig Mitchell, Gregory Harrison, Robbie Wolcott, Angus Scrimm

Don Coscarelli has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. Read More »
Beat (1998) Amon Miyamoto, Mark Bunnell, Claude Maki, Christopher T. Nelson

In the 1960s Okinawa was us under American military occupation. Read More »