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Spartacus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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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 »
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Spartacus - HD DVD Version
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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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 »
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The Night Of The Hunter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
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In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father's stolen fortune. In Robert Mitchum's career-defining role as ..read more »
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Salome
(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 ..read more »
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from 36 members
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Hobson's Choice
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Director: David Lean
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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 »
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from 1,315 member
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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The David Lean Collection - 9 Disc Box Set showcases a brilliant selection of classic films by the director David Lean. Titles include: "Brief Encounter"; "Great Expectations"; "Oliver Twist"; "Madeleine"; "The Passionate Friends"; "The Sound Barrier"; "Hobson's Choice"; "This Happy Breed"; and "..read more »
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from 81 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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Considering Alfred Hitchcock's lifelong fascination with murder and suspense, it is remarkable that THE PARADINE CASE stands as a rare Hitchcock courtroom drama. A beautiful woman (Maddalena Anna Paradine, played by the enchanting Alida Valli) stands accused of murdering her wealthy, blind husband. ..read more »
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from 770 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.
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from 128 members
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Captain Kidd
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott
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 »
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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.
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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 »
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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.
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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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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the classic tale of one of the most infamous adventures on the high seas. The story is based on the fictional accounts written by Charles Nortdhoff and James Norman Hall. Pressganged conscripts sailing for Tahiti buckle under the harsh treatment given by cruel Captain ..read more »
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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 »
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from 11 members
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Piccadilly
on DVD
(1929)
Starring: Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Gilda Gray
Director: E.A. Dupont
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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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The Old Dark House
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 ..read more »
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Jamaica Inn
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(1939)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Run time: 107 minutes
Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn.
Mary soon realizes that her uncle's inn is the base of a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. The girl starts fearing for her life...read more »
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Rembrandt
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(1936)
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Gertrude Lawrence, Charles Laughton
Director: Alexander Korda
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Run time: 85 minutes
Portraying the tortured Dutch artist, Rembrandt van Rijn. He and his work are most sought-after until tragically his wife and model, Saskia, dies. He is devastated, and when commissioned to paint an important work, creates a dark and brooding piece which his creditors believe is highly inapproriate...read more »
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Old Dark House
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(1932)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Director: James Whale
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Run time: 69 minutes
Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, ..read more »
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Piccadilly
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(1929)
Starring: Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Director: Ewald André Dupont
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Run time: 109 minutes
One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, Piccadilly is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension. The Chinese-American screen goddess Anna May Wong stars as Shosho, a scullery maid in a fashionable London nightclub whose sensuous tabletop dance catches the eye of ..read more »
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Legal Tangle 26 January 2005
...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...
A true classic 14 May 2004
