Cecil Kellaway

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Cecil Kellaway - what members say

The Postman Always Rings Twice review by from London

Man Wanted 5 March 2006
...urner give sizzling performances with strong undercurrents of sex and violence. Cecil Kellaway was miscast as Turner's husband portraying him as a niave, folksy dolt.This was... Read customer review

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner on DVD (1967)
Starring: Isabel Sanford, Beah Richards, Virginia Christine
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fiancé:..read more »

72% from 4,036 members

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte on DVD (1965)
Starring: Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Bette Davis is an elderly Southern recluse slowly being driven mad. Fearing that her home may soon be demolished to make way for a new road, and at the same time exposing an ancient murder, her relatives start to gang up on her. What do they want? And why are they trying to convince her that she's mad?

70% from 849 members

The Shaggy Dog on DVD (1959)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
Director: Charles Barton
Certificate:
Filled with impossible situations and hilarious gags, this comic allegory follows the adventures of Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) after he finds an ancient mysterious ring and unintentionally casts a hex on himself and turns into a huge sheepdog. The only other odd thing is that Wilby still has his ..read more »

53% from 216 members

The Proud Rebel on DVD (1958)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Olivia De Havilland
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Ladd plays a Southerner who after the Civil War heads north to search for a doctor to cure his mute son (played by Ladd's real son David). He falls for farmer in the process.

60% from 70 members

Female on the Beach (1955)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling
Director: Joseph Pevney
Certificate:
This movie is ideal for those in the mood for something steamy, overwrought and wonderfully trashy. Billed as a mystery, it centers on hapless Joan Crawford as a wealthy gambler's widow who exchanges the lights and excitement of Vegas for the anticipated serenity of the isolated beach house that ..read more »

66% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms on DVD (1953)
Starring: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
Director: Eugene Lourie
Certificate:
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A single witness to the release of a prehistoric monster, following an atomic bomb test, tries to warn New York that the monster is coming. No one will listen until the monster emerges from the sea and attacks Manhattan. Can the city be saved?

62% from 550 members

Young Bess (1953)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton
Director: George Sidney, george sidney (2)
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The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch - the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her ..read more »

85% from 4 members
Currently unavailable

Harvey - Blu-ray (1950)
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Victoria Horne
Director: Henry Koster
Certificate:
Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) is a good-natured, slightly sloshed man whose faithful companion Harvey is a 6-foot-3-inch rabbit that only he can see. When his sister Veta (Josephine Hull) tries to have him committed, she's taken in instead - and it's up to Elwood and Harvey to straighten out the ..read more »

72% from 4 members
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Harvey on DVD (1950)
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Victoria Horne
Director: Henry Koster
Certificate:
Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) is a good-natured, slightly sloshed man whose faithful companion Harvey is a 6-foot-3-inch rabbit that only he can see. When his sister Veta (Josephine Hull) tries to have him committed, she's taken in instead - and it's up to Elwood and Harvey to straighten out the ..read more »

74% from 7,419 members

Portrait Of Jennie on DVD (1948)
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Director: William Dieterle
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While painting in Central Park one morning, Eben makes the acquaintance of a schoolgirl named Jennie (Jennifer Jones), who prattles on about things that happened years ago. ..read more »

68% from 406 members

The Postman Always Rings Twice on DVD (1946)
Starring: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Director: Tay Garnett
Certificate:
James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a roadhouse run by slovenly but likeable Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway). Nick's sexy young wife Cora (Lana Turner) takes an immediate liking to Frank, but ..read more »

68% from 1,439 member

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - 3.5 stars
The Shaggy Dog - 2.5 stars
The Proud Rebel - 3.0 stars
Female on the Beach - 3.5 stars

Harvey - 4.0 stars
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - 3.5 stars
Portrait Of Jennie - 3.5 stars
The Postman Always Rings Twice - 3.5 stars

Female on the Beach - 3.5 stars
Harvey - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Young Bess - 4.5 stars
The Shaggy Dog - 2.5 stars
The Proud Rebel - 3.0 stars

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Henry Koster - 2 times - show films
Eugene Lourie - 2 times - show films
Joseph Pevney - 1 times - show films
William Dieterle - 1 times - show films
Michael Curtiz - 1 times - show films