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Cedric Hardwicke
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Cedric Hardwicke - what members say
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Good Film, Bad History 12 December 2008
Cedric Hardwicke - filmography
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Baby Face Nelson
(1957)
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Don Siegel
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the unflinching, trigger-happy member of the infamous Dillinger gang that besieged the Midwest circa 1933. Rooney is Lester Baby Face Nelson Gillis and Carolyn Jones his gun moll, ..read more »
 
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Helen of Troy
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Rossana Podesta, Cedric Hardwicke, Niall MacGinnis
Director: Robert Wise
Certificate: 
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A lavishly filmed epic about the Trojan War based on Homer's ILIAD, Robert Wise's HELEN OF TROY depicts the tale of the famed Helen (Rossana Podesta), the woman responsible for the battle. Young Trojan prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) journeys to Sparta, hoping to bring home a peace treaty that will ..read more »
51%
from 302 members
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The Ten Commandments
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yul Brynner
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
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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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Richard III
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Soon after Edward IV is crowned King, his brother, Richard, a hunchback, twisted in mind as well as body, starts scheming for the throne of England. He woos and wins Lady Anne and then poisons Edward's mind against their brother, Clarence, later organising his death. But even after his coronation, ..read more »
64%
from 846 members
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Mr Imperium
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main
Director: Don Hartman
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The story of nightclub singer Fredda Barlo who meets and falls in love with a man whilst on holiday in Italy. The man actually turns out to be a crown prince but the pair don't meet again until ten years later...
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from 45 members
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The Desert Fox
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy
Director: Henry Hathaway
Certificate: 
James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early '40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn ..read more »
69%
from 775 members
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The White Tower
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
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The White Tower is an Alpine Peak that has never been tamed by man. It is said to be impossible to climb and to
conquer. To attempt it is to invite certain death. The White Tower killed Carla Alton's (Alida Valli) father. Now, to fulfil her father's dream, she has assembled her own team of ..read more »
45%
from 6 members
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I Remember Mama
(1948)
Starring: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka
Director: George Stevens
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Irene Dunne stars in this nostalgic picture directed by George Stevens as the mother anyone would love. Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes), Mama is the matriarch of an immigrant Norwegian family in 1910 San Francisco. She and her husband bring up their four children ..read more »
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from 11 members
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Rope
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Edith Evanson, James Stewart
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with ..read more »
72%
from 6,337 members
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Tycoon
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Richard Wallace
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Tycoon stars John Wayne as Johnny Monroe, a contractor who becomes embroiled in a personal and professional battle with a powerful millionaire Frederick Alexander who plans to build a railroad in South America. The battle heightens when Monroe falls in love with Maura, Alexander's beautiful, ..read more »
58%
from 110 members
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)
Starring: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish
Director: John Farrow
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During World War II, simple Norwegian fisherman Erik Toresen (Paul Muni) finds his peaceful village under siege by the Nazis. After an elderly villager is tortured by the invaders, Toresen mobilizes the members of his community villagers and leads them on their way to becoming a fierce troop to be ..read more »
41%
from 7 members
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The Ghost Of Frankenstein
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill
Director: Erle C. Kenton
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Ygor brings Frankenstein's momster to the original Doctor's son, Ludwig. Unwilling to help in restoring the monster that destroyed his family, Ygor blackmails him to do so. But Ludwig realises if he replaces the monster's brain with that of his recent victim, the noble Doctor Kettering, that he may ..read more »
63%
from 93 members
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Suspicion
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Nigel Bruce, Leo G. Carroll, Isabel Jeans
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Cary Grant and Oscar-winner Joan Fontaine star in this Hitchcock thriller in which Fontaine (as Lina) suspects Grant (as her husband) of trying to murder her. The plot is typical of Hitchcock, a brain twister sewing together a series of circumstantial events that leads Lina to the inevitable ..read more »
66%
from 2,410 members
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Tom Brown's School Days
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Billy Halop, Freddie Bartholomew, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Robert Stevenson
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This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to attend a rowdy boarding school. There he finds himself surrounded by budding punks and hoods. It is rough at first, but eventually he learns to make friends.
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from 1 member
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Things To Come - Blu-ray
(1936)
Starring: Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd
Director: William Cameron Menzies
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A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes, based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Things To Come
(1936)
Starring: Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd
Director: William Cameron Menzies
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H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future -- and the screenplay (in conjunction with Lajos Biro) of this epic science fiction tale, but it was producer Alexander Korda who framed the terms on which it is presented, ..read more »
67%
from 580 members
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The Ghoul - Blu-ray
(1934)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
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Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Prof. Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is ..read more »
60%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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The Ghoul
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Harold H, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Certificate:
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Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Prof. Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is ..read more »
55%
from 209 members
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Cedric Hardwicke facts
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... and strong contributions from Luther Adler - a totally convincing Hitler - and Cedric Hardwicke. Henry Hathaway's direction is typically gritty - the documentary style he used...
