High profile San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt is asked personally Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Laugh and Get Rich (1931) Gregory La Cava, Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee
The Austin family faces the depression head on with Sarah running a boarding house Read More »
Get Yourself a College Girl (1964) Sidney Miller, Mary Ann Mobley, Joan O’Brien, Nancy Sinatra
The administrators of Wyndham Girl’s College believe their institution is the model of traditional values Read More »
Black Lizard / Kurotokage (1962) Umetsugu Inoue, Machiko Kyô, Minoru Ôki, Junko Kanô
Kurotokage (1962, aka Black Lizard) has its origins in a 1934 detective novel Read More »
The Ghost Camera (1933) Bernard Vorhaus, Henry Kendall, Victor Stanley, John Mills
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence Read More »
The Battle of the Rails / La bataille du rail (1946) René Clément, Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were Read More »
Beggars of Life (1928) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. Read More »
The Day the Earth Froze / Sampo (1959) Aleksandr Ptushko, Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov
Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos Read More »
The Stone Flower / Kamennyy tsvetok (1946) Aleksandr Ptushko, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova
Aging master gemcutter Prokopych is forced to take up a young apprentice against his will. Read More »
Phantom Beirut / Ashbah Beyrouth (1998) Ghassan Salhab, Aouni Kawas, Darina Al Joundi, Rabih Mroue
Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Read More »