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Claude Rains
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Claude Rains - filmography
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, John Wayne
Director: George Stevens
Certificate: 
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George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
 
64%
from 674 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. ..read more »
74%
from 22,385 members
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The Lost World
(1960)
Starring: Claude Rains, David Hedison, Jill St. John
Director: Irwin Allen
Certificate: 
The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his ..read more »
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from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Herbert Lom, Lucie Mannheim, Claude Rains
Director: Harold French
Certificate:
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Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had looked on ..read more »
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from 65 members
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Sealed Cargo
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Werker
Certificate:
During the height of the Second World War, the whaler Daniel Webster sights a shell-damaged Danish schooner eerily adrift in the waters off Newfoundland. Unable to gain any response from the schooner s crew Pat Bannon (Dana Andrews) boards the helpless ship and finds its Captain (Claude Rains) ..read more »
59%
from 26 members
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The White Tower
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Certificate:
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 »
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from 6 members
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The Passionate Friends
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
An acclaimed drama based on the novel by H.G. Wells in which a young woman weds an older man for security and financial stability. A chance meeting with a former lover whose marriage proposal she once refused due to his social standing, rekindles the flames, leaving her torn between a life of ..read more »
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from 329 members
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Notorious
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an ..read more »
71%
from 6,659 members
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Casablanca - Blu-ray
(1943)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
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The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
83%
from 692 members
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The Phantom Of The Opera
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Director: Arthur Lubin
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The masked phantom of the Paris Opera House schemes to make a beautiful young soprano the star of the opera company and wreak revenge on those who stole his music. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best (Color) Cinematography.
59%
from 331 members
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Now Voyager
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Director: Irving Rapper
Certificate:
The love story of Charolette Vale, a middle-aged spinstress who suffers a nervous breakdown because of her domineering mother and is finally freed after a brief love affair with Jerry, a man she meets while on a cruise after spending time in a sanitarium...
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from 1,502 member
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Casablanca
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
76%
from 31,394 members
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Here Comes Mr Jordan
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
Director: Alexander Hall
Certificate:
When a boxer (Robert Montgomery) is accidentally called to Heaven 50 years before his time, it is up to celestial executive extraordinaire Mr Jordan (Claude Rains) to straighten out the matter. `Here Comes Mr Jordan' was so successful, it inspired a semi-sequel `Down to Earth' which starred Rita ..read more »
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from 115 members
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The Wolf Man
(1941)
Starring: Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy
Director: George Waggner
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Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is full and bright. Upon first hearing these words, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) dismisses them as childish folderol. After all, this is the 20th Century; how can a human being turn ..read more »
65%
from 621 members
Not currently released
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The Sea Hawk
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship and when he comes aboard he finds Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal. He is overwhelmed by her beauty, but she will ..read more »
74%
from 526 members
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Mr Smith Goes To Washington
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Director: Frank Capra
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior ..read more »
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from 6,036 members
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They Made Me A Criminal
(1939)
Starring: John Garfield, The Dead End Kids, Claude Rains
Director: Busby Berkeley
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A young American boxer, falsely accused of murder, is forced to travel West. He hides out on an isolated ranch run by two women and six New York ruffians. The fugitive boxer begins to fall in love with one of the women and complicates his life even further when he agrees to enter a prize fight to ..read more »
62%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Certificate:
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In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times ..read more »
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from 2,006 members
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The Prince And The Pauper
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson
Director: William Kieghley
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Errol Flynn stars in this superb piece of Hollywood magic. Claude Rains (Renault in Casablanca) plays the evil Earl of Hertford. Flynn's real life drinking pal Alan Hale is the Captain of the guard. Eric Portman, Barton MacLane, Montagu Love and a host of classic Hollywood screen supporting stars ..read more »
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from 63 members
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The Last Outpost
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gerthleen Burke
Director: Charles Barton, Louis Gasnier
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THE LAST OUTPOST takes place during the Kurdistan campaign in WW I. Left to die in the desert, British officer Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) is rescued by intelligence agent John Stevenson (Claude Rains). While recuperating in the base hospital, Andrews falls in love with his nurse Rosemary (..read more »
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from 33 members
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The Clairvoyant
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter
Director: Maurice Elvey
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The Great Maximus (Claude Rains – Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia) has got a new act for the music halls where he makes his living. Working with his beautiful wife Rene (Fay Wray – King Kong), he poses as a mind reader. It’s all a trick, of course: he certainly doesn’t have the gift for real. Or so ..read more »
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from 42 members
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The Invisible Man
on DVD
(1933)
Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers
Director: James Whale
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn in the British village of Ipping. Never leaving his quarters, the stranger demands that the staff leave him completely alone. Working unmolested with his test tubes, the ..read more »
71%
from 942 members
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season One
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Vera Miles, Elisha Cook Jr., Joseph Cotten
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
Join the legendary "Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock, in all 39 original episodes of the first season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the Emmy Award-winning murder-mystery series. Join stellar guest stars including Cloris Leachman, Charles Bronson, Claude Rains, Lorne Green, Joanne Woodward, ..read more »
69%
from 621 members
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