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Charles Laughton
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Charles Laughton - what members say
review by from Abergele, North Wales
Legal Tangle 26 January 2005
review by from Wolstenbury, Sussex
A true classic 14 May 2004
review by SolarvanMan from North Yorkshire
A directorial debut. 12 November 2004
Charles Laughton - filmography
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Spartacus
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Certificate: 
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the ..read more »
 
75%
from 7,612 members
Not currently released
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Spartacus - HD
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Certificate:
SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
74%
from 237 members
Not currently released
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Spartacus - Blu-ray
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Certificate:
SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
78%
from 46 members
Not available for rental
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The Night of the Hunter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
Certificate: 
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Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with good represented by a couple of farm kids ..read more »
72%
from 7,400 members
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Young Bess
(1953)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton
Director: George Sidney, george sidney (2)
Certificate: 
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 »
70%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Hobson's Choice
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 
A story of feminism in 19th Century Salford, Hobson's Choice deals with the empowering of female characters. Henry Hobson is a widower with a weakness for the pub and the owner of a successful bootmakers. In order to save his finances he denies his three daughters the right to marry. So in ..read more »
79%
from 1,596 member
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Salome
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton
Director: William Dieterle
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In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust ..read more »
56%
from 52 members
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The Strange Door
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
Director: Joseph Pevney
Certificate:
Noble-born brawler and debaucher, Denis de Beaulieu (Richard Stapley), is selected by the scheming Sire Alain de Maletroit (Charles Laughton) to be forced into marrying his only niece Blanche de Maletroit (Sally Forrest). Whilst carousing at an inn, Denis is tricked into a fight with one of ..read more »
63%
from 24 members
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The Bribe
(1949)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
Director: Robert Z Leonard
Certificate:
In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer; and is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore feet. Rigby knows he's on the right track when Bealer offers him money to leave ..read more »
50%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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Based on a true story, this powerful film is about a woman called Madeleine (Ann Todd) who embarks on an affair with a penniless Frenchman. Madeleine hails from a wealthy, respectable family so the relationship as to remain secret while her father parades eligible suitors in front of her.
67%
from 163 members
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The Big Clock
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Director: John Farrow
Certificate:
George Stroud, (Ray Milland) executive editor at Crimeways magazine, is involved with the wrong woman - his boss's. When Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton), his boss, kills her in an argument, he begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man, whose identity he doesn’t know but was seen outside ..read more »
71%
from 105 members
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The Paradine Case
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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 »
59%
from 978 members
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Because Of Him
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Charles Laughton
Director: Richard Wallace
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Young and beautiful Kim Walker (Durbin) aspires for the life of a Broadway actress and singer. She devises a scheme which will get her on stage, in fact she gets the lead role in a new play through the help of the magnificent John Sheridan (Laughton), even against the writer's objections.
56%
from 140 members
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Captain Kidd
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton
Director: Rowland V. Lee
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Twenty-one swashbuckliing features. In 'The Black Pirate', Douglas Fairbanks plays a nobleman who wants to revenge his father's murder, so he boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous rapscallions, and sets about achieving his goal. On the high seas, the athletic Fairbanks ..read more »
48%
from 110 members
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This Land Of Mine
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders
Director: Jean Renoir
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Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate with them against France.
67%
from 126 members
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Tales of Manhattan
(1942)
Starring: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
Director: Julien Duvivier
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An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the four succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth.
65%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Jamaica Inn
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Set in 19th-century Cornwall, this tale of a young woman who visits her aunt, only to discover she's residing in a haven for throat-slashing pirates, is one of Hitchcock's lesser-known films. A period melodrama, the film features an excellent Maureen O'Hara in one of her earlier roles. JAMAICA INN ..read more »
57%
from 1,456 member
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Rembrandt
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Director: Alexander Korda
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The dramatic story of the life and loves of the Dutch painter, Rembrandt. When his much adored wife dies, his work takes on a dark feel that his patrons dislike. He ends up bankrupt but consoles himself in an affair with his pretty maid, which brings some happiness back into his life.
70%
from 121 members
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Mutiny On The Bounty
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Director: Frank Lloyd
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, and this 1935 MGM movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture. Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty, ..read more »
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from 1,298 member
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Island of Lost Souls
(1933)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Director: Erle C. Kenton
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When shipwreck survivor Edward Parker is rescued after three days adrift on an overturned lifeboat in the South Pacific, his ordeal is just beginning. He is plunged into the nightmarish world of Dr Moreau (Charles Laughton), an exiled scientist obsessed with the physical transformation of animals ..read more »
67%
from 21 members
Not available for rental
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The Old Dark House
(1932)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Director: James Whale
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One of the most literate and visually striking horror films of the Thirties, The Old Dark House was directed by award-winning James Whale the year after he made the seminal Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as the monster. An artful mixture of chills and exceedingly dry gallows humour, The ..read more »
67%
from 400 members
Not available for rental
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Piccadilly
on DVD
(1929)
Starring: Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Gilda Gray
Director: E.A. Dupont, Ewald André Dupont
Certificate:
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A British silent murder mystery about Shosho (Anna May Wong, SHANGHAI EXPRESS), scullery maid turned dancer from China, who finds herself caught up in a crooked liaison between a suave nightclub owner Valentine and an obsessive fellow dancer Mabel (Gilda Gray). Features a cameo by Charles Laughton ..read more »
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from 380 members
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Charles Laughton facts
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...y 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 interesting for t...
