
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Rings on Her Fingers (1942) Rouben Mamoulian, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes Read More »
The Little Minister (1934) Richard Wallace, Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale

In rural 1840’s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new “little minister” of Thrums’s Auld Licht church. Read More »
Phantom Raiders (1940) Jacques Tourneur, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut

A mysterious rash of cargo ship sinkings in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter Read More »
They All Kissed the Bride (1942) Alexander Hall, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. Read More »
The Last Train (1973) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud

May 1940 – Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. Read More »
Task Force / Yit huet jui keung (1997) Patrick Leung, Leo Ku, Charlie Yeung, Eric Tsang

Patrick Leung (Beyond Hypothermia, Somebody Up There Likes Me) directed this Hong Kong action-crime comedy-drama Read More »
Revenge of the Pearl Queen (1956) Toshio Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Michiko Maeda, Ken Utsui

A story of sex and survival, Toshio Shimura’s REVENGE OF THE PEARL QUEEN stars voluptuous Michiko Maeda Read More »
Hardly a Criminal / Apenas un delincuente (1949) Hugo Fregonese, Jorge Salcedo, Sebastián Chiola, Tito Alonso

A bank employee utilizes a legal loophole to conduct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards Read More »
Monsieur Fantômas (1937) Ernst Moerman, Jacqueline Arpé, Françoise Bert, L. Degroote

In this surrealist piece of avant-garde generation of Belgian cinema, French masked master of crime Fantômas travels Read More »