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 »
Author Archives: rarefilm
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
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 »
I Shot Jesse James (1949) Samuel Fuller, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland
While the law hunts him, Jesse James lives quietly in a rented house on the corner of Lafayette Read More »