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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Show Goes On (1937) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, Owen Nares, John Stuart

A mill worker is plucked from obscurity and thrust towards fame and fortune when an ailing composer needs a singer to perform his work. Read More »
Mr. Shome / Bhuvan Shome (1969) Mrinal Sen, Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay, Shekhar Chatterjee

Bhuvan Shome is a lonely widower, a proud old man and a strict disciplinarian. Read More »
Sing As We Go! (1934) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, John Loder, Dorothy Hyson

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool. Read More »
The Obsessed of Catulé / Vereda de Salvação (1965) Anselmo Duarte, Raul Cortez, José Parisi, Lélia Abramo

In the poor Brazil’s Northeast, rural laborers join in a messianic group led by Joaquim Read More »
When the Mountains Tremble (1983) Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates, Rigoberta Menchú, Susan Sarandon

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military Read More »
Six of a Kind (1934) Leo McCarey, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier Great Dane. Read More »
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001) Claude Miller, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Read More »
Dandelion Dead (1994) Mike Hodges, Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis

This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong Read More »
Look Up and Laugh (1935) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, Vivien Leigh, Douglas Wakefield

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. Read More »