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Author Archives: rarefilm
Cancel My Reservation (1972) Paul Bogart, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy

The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. Read More »
Le mani sporche / Dirty Hands (1978) Elio Petri, Giovanni Visentin, Giuliana de Sio, Anna Maria Gherardi

A young, impressionable communist Hugo is sent to kill a rogue party chairman Read More »
The Winner’s Circle / Premières armes (1950) René Wheeler, Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette, Guy Decomble

The heroes are young boys, trained as jockeys in a horse farm. Read More »
Young Toscanini / Il giovane Toscanini (1988) Franco Zeffirelli, C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward

In Rio de Janeiro in 1886, eighteen-year-old conductor Arturo Toscanini (C. Thomas Howell) Read More »
Concert of Wishes / Koncert zyczen (1967) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ryszard Dembinski, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Ewa Konarska

A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. Read More »
A che punto è la notte (1994) Nanni Loy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marie Laforêt, Yvonne Sciò

In a church in Turin, an awkward priest gets killed by a bomb hidden inside a votive candle during the homily. Read More »
Ministry of Fear (1944) Fritz Lang, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. Read More »
Thieves’ Highway (1949) Jules Dassin, Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb

The soldier Nick Garcos returns back home from the war very happy with gifts for his parents Read More »
I fantastici 3 Supermen / The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967) Gianfranco Parolini, Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Aldo Canti

Brad McCallum, strongman and FBI agent, recruits two former friends to a shady operation Read More »