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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Ace of Spades (1935) George Pearson, Michael Hogan, Dorothy Boyd, Richard Cooper
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband’s rival. Read More »
Six-Gun Gold (1941) David Howard, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Jan Clayton
Don, Smokey and Whopper are are their way to Placer City where Don’s brother Brad is U.S. Marshal. Read More »
Dark Vengeance / Warlords 3000 (1992) Faruque Ahmed, Jay Roberts Jr., Denice Duff, John Croshaw
Set in a distant post-apocalyptic future when the environment has been blasted into a poisoned wasteland Read More »
Goodbye Bafana (2007) Bille August, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Read More »
Baby Face (1933) Alfred E. Green, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables Read More »
Freeze Die Come to Life / Zamri, umri, voskresni! (1990) Vitali Kanevsky, Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947 Read More »
Internal Sleuth / Sakura no Daimon (1973) Kenji Misumi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Michi Higashi
When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers Read More »
The Oil-Hell Murder / Onna goroshi abura no jigoku (1992) Hideo Gosha, Kanako Higuchi, Miwako Fujitani, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi
Veteran director (Hideo Gosha) adapts this psychological drama based Read More »
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1994) Larry Weinstein, William S. Burroughs, Betty Carter, Nick Cave
Set in a turn-of-the-century warehouse, the lavish designs echo many Read More »