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Author Archives: rarefilm
Let’s Rock (1958) Harry Foster, Julius LaRosa, Phyllis Newman, Conrad Janis
Singer’s girlfriend helps him adjust to the new rock’n’roll music. Read More »
Hot to Trot (1988) Michael Dinner, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. Read More »
Iron Maze (1991) Hiroaki Yoshida, Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami
In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman Read More »
Flight Into France / Fuga in Francia (1948) Mario Soldati, Folco Lulli, Enrico Olivieri, Rosi Mirafiore
A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France Read More »
Jia ru wo shi zhen de / If I Were for Real (1981) Tung Wang, Kuan-Chen Hu, Alan Tam, Lin Hsiang
It is an adaptation of the 1979 play of the same name by Sha Yexin, Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde, set in mainland China. Read More »
J.C. (1972) William F. McGaha, Hannibal Penney, Joanna Moore
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years Read More »
Man on the Tracks (1957) Andrzej Munk, Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. Read More »
Last of the Great Survivors (1984) Jerry Jameson, Pam Dawber, James Naughton, Thom Bray
Perky social worker Laura Mathews (Pam Dawber) takes up the cause of a group of senior citizens Read More »
Scandalous John (1971) Robert Butler, Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people–and the law–tell him he has to. Read More »