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Author Archives: rarefilm
Bequest to the Nation (1973) James Cellan Jones, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston
Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton. Read More »
Cannonball Wedlock / Konzen tokkyû (2011) Kôji Maeda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ryô Kase, Kenta Hamano
A slapstick comedy about a woman who has led a life of noncommittal romance Read More »
You’ll Never See Me Again (1973) Jeannot Szwarc, David Hartman, Jane Wyatt, Ralph Meeker
Newlyweds Ned and Vicki Bliss have a fight and Vicki leaves saying that she Read More »
Girl with the Diamond Slipper / Mo deng xian lu qi yuan (1985) Jing Wong, Maggie Cheung, Pak-Cheung Chan
An aspiring actress gets into hot water when the shoes Read More »
One Night Stand (1978) Allan King, Chapelle Jaffe, Brent Carver, Dinah Christie
Carol Bolts adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor Read More »
Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets Read More »
Let’s Do It Again (1953) Alexander Hall, Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray
In this 1953 musical remake of “The Awful Truth”, Wyman is married to womanizing composer Read More »
Chaindance (1991) Allan A. Goldstein, Scott Andersen, R. Nelson Brown, Norman Browning
A prison decides that the best way to rehabilitate a particularly troublesome prisoner Read More »
Cry for Me, Billy (1972) William A. Graham, Cliff Potts, Maria Potts, Harry Dean Stanton
In the Wild West, the American Army are fighting the Indians, in a succession of brutal massacres. Read More »