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Author Archives: rarefilm
Decision at Sundown (1957) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele

Bart Allison arrives in Sundown planning to kill Tate Kimbrough. Read More »
Treasure Island (1986) Raúl Ruiz, Vic Tayback, Martin Landau, Anna Karina

Raúl Ruiz’s fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel. Read More »
Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) Frank R. Strayer, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms

Mr. Dithers has a house he can’t unload because it is rumored to be haunted. Read More »
Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939) Frank R. Strayer, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms

A book salesman sells Blondie Bumstead a set of books on child training Read More »
A Severed Head (1971) Dick Clement, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm

The wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow Read More »
13 Ghosts (1960) William Castle, Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner

Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his eerie mansion to his penniless Read More »
Porridge (1979) Dick Clement, Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay

This prison comedy is based on the popular British television series of the same name. Read More »
It’s Tough to Be Famous (1932) Alfred E. Green, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Brian, Harold Minjir

When his submarine, S89, is sunk by an excursion boat, Scotty is the last one Read More »
The Girl in the Show (1929) Edgar Selwyn, Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward J. Nugent

In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Read More »