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Author Archives: rarefilm
Jealousy / Gelosia (1953) Pietro Germi, Marisa Belli, Erno Crisa, Alessandro Fersen

A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married Read More »
Other People’s Letters / Chuzhie pisma (1976) Ilya Averbakh, Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Smirnova, Sergei Kovalenkov

Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Read More »
The Green Mare / La jument verte (1959) Claude Autant-Lara, Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Sandra Milo

The story is set during the latter half of the 19th century and follows two feuding peasant families. Read More »
Showdown at the Great Tone River / Doto no taiketsu (1959) Yasushi Sasaki, Utaemon Ichikawa, Chiezô Kataoka

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale Read More »
The Jack Bull (1999) John Badham, John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones

The Jack Bull is about a normal Horse trader Myrl Redding (John Cusack) who cherishes the law and his rights. Read More »
The Trip to Bountiful (1985) Peter Masterson

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940’s Houston Read More »
The Racket (1951) John Cromwell, Mel Ferrer, Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan

The large federal crime syndicate has proceeded in to town, teaming up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. Read More »
Sweepings (1933) John Cromwell, Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. Read More »
It’s a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951) Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper

The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit Read More »