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The Paradine Case review by from Abergele, North Wales

Legal Tangle 26 January 2005
...nces from Gregory Peck and Valli (who also appears in The Third Man) along with Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton and Ethel Barrymore (Drew Barrymores Great Aunt). It is also... Read customer review

Charles Coburn - filmography

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on DVD (1953)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Follow Loreli and Dorothy, two girls from Little Rock as they travel to France and find themselves falling for a millionaire.

71% from 3,974 members

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? on DVD (1952)
Starring: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn
Director: Douglas Sirk
Certificate:
A rare comedy from Sirk, but still dealing with family issues and status. Samuel Futon (Charles Coburn) decides to leave his millions to the family of a lost love. However, he tests their worthiness by taking a room in the family home, working for the family business and secretly donating a large ..read more »

63% from 106 members

Monkey Business on DVD (1952)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers star in this classic - comedy about a alchemist who discovers the secret of eternal youth. For years, Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Grant) has been working on a youth-restoring serum with little success - until the day a chimpanzee gets loose in the lab and ..read more »

63% from 1,176 member

Mr Music (1950)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn
Director: Richard Haydn
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A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track

55% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Impact on DVD (1949)
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
Director: Arthur Lubin
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No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Williams retreats to idyllic Larkspur in Idaho, where he recuperates and ..read more »

56% from 28 members

The Green Grass Of Wyoming on DVD (1948)
Starring: Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn
Director: Louis King
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In this sequel to THUNDERHEAD - SON OF FLICKA, a rancher's niece falls for the son of a neighbouring rancher. Meanwhile, a relationship develops between their respective horses.

59% from 25 members

The Paradine Case on DVD (1947)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband. British barrister Anthony Keane (played by the aggressively American Gregory Peck) takes on the case-and in the process, falls in love with Anna, despite being ..read more »

60% from 991 members

Heaven Can Wait on DVD (1943)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Certificate:
Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. ..

63% from 559 members

The More the Merrier (1943)
Starring: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
A sparkling little comedy set in overcrowded, wartime Washington D.C., Arthur shares her small, one-bedroom apartment with McCrea and Coburn; the latter playing matchmaker. Coburn deservedly won a Best Supporting Oscar as the lovable Mr. Dingle.

61% from 16 members
Currently unavailable

The Major And The Minor on DVD (1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin, Billy Wilder
Certificate:
New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Ray Milland, an Army major teaching at a military school., who takes her under his wing.

72% from 58 members

The Major And The Minor / Bachelor Mother (2 discs) on DVD (1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin, Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Includes the Ginger Rodgers films THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR and BACHELOR MOTHER. In THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR, a female adult poses as a child in order to take a train journey for half the adult price. While on the train, she meets a Major who's teaching at a military school. In BACHELOR MOTHER, a ..read more »

65% from 58 members

Road To Singapore on DVD (1940)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Certificate:
First in the series of 'Road' movies. Two men try to forget their previous romances in Singapore.

64% from 385 members

Three Faces West / Shepherd Of The Hills on DVD (1940)
Starring: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn
Director: Bernard Vorhaus, Henry Hathaway, Bernard Vorha
Certificate:
Two features. In 'Three Faces West' a refugee physician and his daughter find themselves part of a group of townspeople who are trying to relocate out of the dust bowl region of the South Central U.S. John Wayne stars as the group's tireless leader. Also includes 'Shepherd Of The Hills'.

62% from 84 members

Bachelor Mother on DVD (1939)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin, Garson Kanin, Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

72% from 57 members

Made For Each Other on DVD (1939)
Starring: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn
Director: John Cromwell
Certificate:
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Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard star as newlyweds in this delightful romantic dramedy. Stewart plays Johnny Mason, an amiable New York City lawyer who has put his career in jeopardy by refusing the hand of his employer's daughter. His beloved wife, Jane (comically portrayed by Lombard), is ..read more »

51% from 299 members

Vivacious Lady on DVD (1938)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
Director: George Stevens
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were an item when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one another pours over onto the screen. Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub singer ..read more »

64% from 33 members

Margin For Error/A Royal Scandal (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Charles Coburn, Milton Berle, Anne Baxter
Director: Otto Preminger
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Two classic films by Oscar-nominated director and actor Otto Preminger.Set in pre-WWII New York, MARGIN FOR ERROR stars Milton Berle as a Jewish policeman assigned to guard Nazi consul Karl Baumer (Preminger). Putting the blue into blue-blooded, A ROYAL SCANDAL is a fictionalised account of Russia'..read more »

60% from 48 members

Colonel Effingham's Raid on DVD
Starring: Joan Bennett, Charles Coburn, William Eythe
Director: Irving Pichel
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Retired Colonel Effingham has found a new career as a detective in his home town of Georgia. He starts on the case of a band of crooked politicians.

40% from 37 members

Charles Coburn facts

5 most recent films

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 3.5 stars
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? - 3.0 stars
Monkey Business - 3.0 stars
Mr Music - 3.0 stars
Impact - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Major And The Minor - 3.5 stars
Bachelor Mother - 3.5 stars
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 3.5 stars
The Major And The Minor / Bachelor Mother - 3.0 stars
Road To Singapore - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Colonel Effingham's Raid - 2.0 stars
Impact - 2.5 stars
Mr Music - 3.0 stars
The More the Merrier - 3.0 stars
The Green Grass Of Wyoming - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ginger Rogers - 6 times - show films
Frank Albertson - 4 times - show films
David Niven - 4 times - show films
Joan Bennett - 4 times - show films
Ray Milland - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Garson Kanin - 6 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 6 times - show films
Otto Preminger - 3 times - show films
George Stevens - 2 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 2 times - show films