From an unhappy childhood experience, Law Ka Sing decisively hides his homosexual identity. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Nobodys Darling (1943) Anthony Mann, Mary Lee, Louis Calhern, Gladys George
Teens of Hollywood parents board at an exclusive school and grapple with the usual teen issues while preparing to put on a show. Read More »
My Best Gal (1944) Anthony Mann, Jane Withers, Jimmy Lydon, Frank Craven
Kitty O’Hara (Jane Withers) has a good singing voice but will have nothing to do with trying to use it in the theatre or on the radio. Read More »
Can-Can (1960) Walter Lang, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier
Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Read More »
Death on the Nile (1978) John Guillermin, Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Read More »
The Girls of Don Juan / Prenez la queue comme tout le monde (1973) Jean-François Davy, Philippe Gasté, Anne Libert, Malisa Longo
It all began with the perky young girl that Jerry won as first prize in a radio quiz. Read More »
Anne of the Indies (1951) Jacques Tourneur, Jean Peters
LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against Read More »
Stingaree (1934) William A. Wellman, Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson Read More »
Hardly Working (1981) Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel
In Jerry Lewis’s first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can’t seem to hold down a job. Read More »
That House in the Outskirts (1980) Eugenio Martín, Javier Escrivá, Silvia Aguilar, Alida Valli
A young girl’s husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three months of her pregnancy in peace and luxury. Read More »