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  • Casablanca
  • Casablanca review by from Reading England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Play it again Sam! 16 December 2004
    ...already been said? Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Paul Henreid (not to forget Claude Rains and Peter Lorre) are the chief combatants in the movie (as you will no doubt re...   Read customer review
  • Notorious
  • Notorious review by from Berwick upon Tweed
    Rated - 4.0 stars Carry on Grant 21 March 2005
    ...in Rio - which if you have to chase Nazis, is as nice a place as any to do it. Claude Rains is at his most suave despite his villainous carryings on. There is no reas...   Read customer review
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Invisible Man review by Lulu65 from
    Rated - 3.5 stars Now you see him......... 23 May 2011
    ... time the film was made. If you haven't seen it, then it's well worth watching. Claude Rains' decent into madness is delicious!...   Read customer review

Claude Rains - filmography


  • The Greatest Story Ever Told on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Pat Boone,  John Wayne
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2 members
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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: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 65 members
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  • Sealed Cargo on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Carla Balenda,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Werker
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 6 members
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  • The Passionate Friends on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Ann Todd,  Claude Rains,  Trevor Howard
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 329 members
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  • Notorious on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ingrid Bergman,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 6,659 members
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  • Casablanca - Blu-ray (1943)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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.
    4 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 331 members
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  • Now Voyager on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Paul Henreid,  Claude Rains
    Director: Irving Rapper
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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...
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 1,502 member
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  • Casablanca on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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.
    4 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 115 members
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  • The Wolf Man (1941)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Warren William,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: George Waggner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 621 members
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  • The Sea Hawk on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Errol Flynn,  Brenda Marshall,  Claude Rains
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7 members
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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: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 33 members
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  • The Clairvoyant on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Fay Wray,  Jane Baxter
    Director: Maurice Elvey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 42 members
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  • The Invisible Man on DVD (1933)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Gloria Stuart,  Henry Travers
    Director: James Whale
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 942 members
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Claude Rains facts

5 most recent films

The Greatest Story Ever Told - 3.0 stars
Lawrence Of Arabia - 4.0 stars
The Lost World - 2.5 stars
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - 3.0 stars
Sealed Cargo - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Casablanca - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Now Voyager - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid - 4.0 stars
Casablanca - 4.0 stars
The Adventures of Robin Hood - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The White Tower - 2.5 stars
The Lost World - 2.5 stars
The Last Outpost - 3.0 stars
Sealed Cargo - 3.0 stars
They Made Me A Criminal - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Henreid - 10 times - show films
Olivia De Havilland - 8 times - show films
Errol Flynn - 7 times - show films
Ingrid Bergman - 6 times - show films
Joy Page - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Curtiz - 11 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 8 times - show films
William Keighley - 4 times - show films
Herman Shumlin - 3 times - show films
David Lean - 3 times - show films