Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
My Reputation (1946) Curtis Bernhardt, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Read More »
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophüls, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that Read More »
The Wedding March (1928) Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts
Prince Nikki, Lieutenant of the Guard in pre WWI Vienna, is flat broke, but the only advice he gets from his parents is either to shoot himself or to marry money. Read More »
Beast at Bay / La bête à l’affût (1959) Pierre Chenal, Françoise Arnoul, Henri Vidal, Gaby Sylvia
A cop’s widow is through with love and she spends her time collecting money for the orphans of the Police Read More »
They All Come Out (1939) Jacques Tourneur, Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell
A “Crime Doesn’t Pay” morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term Read More »
The Big Hit / Le gros coup (1964) Jean Valère, Emmanuelle Riva, Hardy Krüger, Francisco Rabal
Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident Read More »
The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1971) Kôji Wakamatsu, Eriko Shima, Hiroshi Yajima, Takeshi Shima
In the wake of Yukio Mishima’s suicide, two suicidal couples are about to face their memories Read More »
The Infamous House / Det berygtede Hus (1912) Urban Gad, Augusta Blad, Richard Christensen, Frederik Jacobsen
The young woman, Nina, works as a singer at a Copenhagen variety, but when her contract expires Read More »
The Key (2014) Jefery Levy, David Arquette, Bai Ling, Nathan Keyes
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple, whose twisted sexual relationship Read More »