Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Prison Boss / Gokuchu no kaoyaku (1968) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Toshi Amatsu
Ken Takakura stars in yet another bad-ass Prison film, in “Prison Boss”. Read More »
Brothers Serving Time / Chôeki san kyôdai (1969) Kiyoshi Saeki, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura, Kyôsuke Machida
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. Read More »
Great Citizen / Velikiy grazhdanin (1938) Fridrikh Ermler, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov
In the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement Read More »
The Canary Murder Case (1929) Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle, William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed ‘the Canary’, is a scheming nightclub singer. Read More »
West Point of the Air (1935) Richard Rosson, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Lewis Stone
Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone have both risen as far as they can in the Army, Stone’s a general and Beery a top sergeant. Read More »
Confessing to Laura / Confesión a Laura (1990) Jaime Osorio Gómez, Vicky Hernández, Gustavo Londoño, María Cristina Gálvez
The action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous “Bogotazo”. Read More »
Bloody Murder / …la main à couper (1974) Etienne Périer, Lea Massari, Michel Bouquet, Bernard Blier
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor Read More »
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) Gordon Flemyng, Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis Read More »
The Wind’s Fierce / La colera del viento (1970) Mario Camus, Terence Hill, Maria Grazia Buccella, Mario Pardo
This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill Read More »