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David Carradine 1936-2009 -
5 June 2009
ry looks and hooded eyes, Carradine was most often cast as a tough guy – although not the out and out villain his father, John Carradine, was typecast as in several hundred films in Hollywood’s Golden Age.-
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John Carradine - filmography
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Anthony And Cleopatra
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Lynn Redgrave, Nichelle Nichols
Director: Bryan Foy
Certificate: 
The great historical lovers come to life in this unusually lucid adaptation of Shakespeare's play. The English accents so prevalent in most Shakespearean productions are absent and the costumes and sets are based on the original designs from the Globe Theater productions of Shakespeare's day.
 
41%
from 175 members
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Buried Alive
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Robert Vaughn
Director: Gerard Kikoine
Certificate: 
Janet Pendleton arrives at Ravens-croft Reform School to teach Science, but discovers macabre goings-on, especially to wayward girls. Suffering hallucinations of someone being bricked-up behind a wall, she seeks the help of the School Doctor, only to discover he was once a patient at the School ..read more »
39%
from 179 members
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Boogeyman 2
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Suzanna Love, John Carradine
Director: Ulli Lommel
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The survivor of the first encounter with the Bogeyman finds herself in Hollywood with a movie producer and a party. But before long the guests finds themselves fighting for survival when a piece of the original 'haunted' mirror unleashes evil.
34%
from 268 members
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House Of The Long Shadows
(1982)
Starring: Desi Arnaz Jr., Christopher Lee, Richard Todd
Director: Pete Walker
Certificate: 
Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he can bat out a mystery play in one evening. Magee squirrels himself away in a forbidding old mansion where, unbeknownst to him, a bizarre family reunion is scheduled to commence. As the participants begin dropping like flies, ..read more »
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Due for release on 17th September 2012
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The Boogeyman
(1980)
Starring: Suzanna Love, Ron James, John Carradine
Director: Ulli Lommel
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A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death...
47%
from 97 members
Not currently released
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The Howling
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Elisabeth Brooks, Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee
Director: Joe Dante
Certificate:
Severely shaken after a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace-Stone) takes some much-needed time off. Hoping to conquer her inner demons, she heads for the 'Colony', a secluded retreat where her new neighbors are just a tad too eager to make her feel at ..read more »
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from 2,382 members
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The Bogey Man - Uncut
(1980)
Starring: John Carradine, Suzanna Love, Nicholas Love
Director: Ulli Lommel
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A young girl called Lucy witnesses the murder of her mother's lover by her older brother. Years later she attempts to come to terms with her nightmare by returning to the house - but something lies in wait...
47%
from 50 members
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White Buffalo
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Clint Walker, Slim Pickens
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) and Crazy Horse (Will Sampson), two of the Wild West's most legendary figures, search for the fabled white beast--and their own salvation--in this J. Lee Thompson film. WHITE BUFFALO also features Jack Warden, Kim Novak, and Slim Pickens.
55%
from 264 members
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Death at Love House
(1976)
Starring: Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Certificate: 
Donna and Joel Gregory are busy researching a book about highly-revered and long-dead Hollywood film goddess Lorna Love. They decide to visit Lorna's estate, where they stay while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Things get sticky when Joel, whose father had had a passionate affair with Lorna, ..read more »
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from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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The Shootist
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Harry Morgan, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
Director: Don Siegel
Certificate: 
John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's dying of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding house in Carson City run by Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, ..read more »
72%
from 1,968 member
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Silent Night, Bloody Night
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Donelda Dunne, Jay Garner, Patrick O'Neal
Director: Thomas Gershuny
Certificate:
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A new mansion owner discovers that his home was once a mental institution. He sets about investigating the crimes that took place in the mansion, whilst scaring the surrounding populace.
38%
from 128 members
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Boxcar Bertha
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, John Carradine
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. ..read more »
52%
from 675 members
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Horror Of The Blood Monsters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicky Volante
Director: Al Adamson
Certificate: 
The people of planet Earth are in danger of being completely drained of their blood when a terrifying wave of inexplicable vampire killings sweep the world. Includes paste-up footage from a black and white Philipino movie with phony color added and new scenes shot in the United States. Also ..read more »
36%
from 96 members
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The McMasters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Burl Ives, Jack Palance, David Carradine
Director: Alf Kjellin
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Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, THE MCMASTERS stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a 'free' man in name only. Peters' ex-..read more »
58%
from 16 members
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(1969)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Marshal Flagg, an ageing lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an ..read more »
55%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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The Trouble with Girls
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe
Director: Peter Tewksbury
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This comic drama is a change of pace for Elvis as he plays Walter Hale, the manager of a 1920s traveling show that starts to develop some trouble when it hits town in Iowa. The film is packed with colourful co-stars including Vincent Price, Marlyn Mason and John Carradine. 'Almost', 'Clean Up Your ..read more »
59%
from 277 members
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The Ten Commandments
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yul Brynner
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Certificate: 
Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard ..read more »
70%
from 2,383 members
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Around The World In 80 Days
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: David Niven, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production ..read more »
60%
from 1,427 member
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The Kentuckian
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Walter Matthau
Director: Burt Lancaster
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A rugged frontiersman and his son travel to Texas in search of a place to begin a new life. They face numerous rough characters in their struggle to survive on the Texas prairie. Burt Lancaster directs and stars, with Walter Matthau making his film debut as a whip-wielding brute in this solid, ..read more »
60%
from 322 members
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Bluebeard
(1944)
Starring: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
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Catherine takes great pleasure in terrifying her elder sister Marie-Anne by reading her the infamous tale of "Bluebeard" until the poor girl is so frightened she bursts into tears. She also enjoys performing re-enactments of the fairy-tale in the role of Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife. ..read more »
37%
from 64 members
Currently unavailable
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Voodoo Man
(1944)
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine
Director: William Beaudine
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Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is perhaps the best of the batch, if only because of its quirky supporting cast and casually offbeat dialogue. Lugosi plays Dr. Marlowe, a practitioner of voodoo who kidnaps nubile ..read more »
66%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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House of Frankenstein
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine
Director: Erle C. Kenton
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Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann (Boris Karloff), escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a travelling chamber of horrors. Pulling the stake out of a skeleton, he revives the infamous Count Dracula (John Carradine) and commands him to kill the man responsible for his imprisonment. He ..read more »
59%
from 147 members
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Waterfront
(1944)
Starring: John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Maris Wrixon
Director: Steve Sekely
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The residents of San Francisco are in for something of a shock ... their friendly optometrist is actually a Nazi spy. When he realises that his code book has been stolen, he sets off on a mission to save it, and himself, from the clutches of the authorities...
17%
from 9 members
Not currently released
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Man Hunt
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. ..read more »
63%
from 79 members
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The Return Of Frank James
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
Director: Fritz Lang
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's JESSE JAMES does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after all was shot dead by 'that dirty little coward' Bob Ford (John Carradine). Repeating his portrayal of western outlaw Frank James, Henry Fonda is promoted to top billing here. ..read more »
64%
from 39 members
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Drums Along The Mohawk
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Director: John Ford
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DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has ..read more »
59%
from 249 members
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Mr Moto's Last Warning
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, John Carradine
Director: Norman Foster
Certificate:
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A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments. The dead man was his colleague, ..read more »
56%
from 84 members
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1939)
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie
Director: Sidney Lanfield
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A man runs for his life across the moors, breathless and frightened. Behind him we hear the baying of a hound, a sound so fearful it chills the soul. The man falls. From the desolate rocky nightscape another man peers: he is bearded and rough looking, perhaps a convict from the nearby prison.... ..read more »
68%
from 1,218 member
Currently unavailable
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House of the Long Shadows
(1938)
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Pete Walker
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An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.
69%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Thank You Mr Moto
(1937)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, John Carradine
Director: Norman Foster
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the Japanese amateur archeologist is in competition with a ruthless gang of jewel thieves to find the tomb of Genghis Khan and its alleged hoard of fabulous treasure. Mr Moto has one of seven scrolls which together locate the tomb. In China, an ancient family protects the remaining scrolls. Soon Mr ..read more »
56%
from 3 members
Due for release on 11th June 2012
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Danger - Love At Work
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Jack Haley, John Carradine, Ann Sothern
Director: Otto Preminger
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Lawyer Henry MacMorrow is struggling to get the scatty Pemberton family to agree on a large property deal. Noticing that the eldest daughter is rather more tuned on than the rest of the family, he turns to her for help.
49%
from 44 members
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Mary of Scotland
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge
Director: John Ford
Certificate:
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This tragic story deals with the short lived reign of Mary Stuart (Katharine Hepburn), her relationship with the queen of England, Elizabeth Tudor, and her marriage.
60%
from 59 members
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Prisoner Of Shark Island
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, John Carradine
Director: John Ford
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Written by Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road), The Prisoner of Shark Island dramatizes the fatal shooting of Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) and the subsequent visit by the assassin John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) to Dr. Samuel Mudd's house to fix his broken leg. Unaware ..read more »
67%
from 126 members
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The Garden Of Allah
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone
Director: Richard Boleslawski
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In THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, Domini, a society girl (Marlene Dietrich) mourning the death of her father, travels to the Sahara. There she finds romance with Boris, a monk (Charles Boyer) who has recently abandoned the monastic life but remains torn between religious devotion and worldly desire, ..read more »
51%
from 182 members
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Daniel Boone
(1935)
Starring: George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine
Director: David Howard
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The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that primarily centers on the big man's attempts to quell an Indian uprising and capture the ornery villain who has been stirring up all the trouble.
25%
from 2 members
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