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Claude Rains - what members say


  • Casablanca
  • Casablanca review by BARRIE MACHIN from Reading England
    Rated - 5 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...  
  • Notorious
  • Notorious review by Claude from Berwick upon Tweed
    Rated - 4 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...  
  • The Phantom Of The Opera
  • The Phantom Of The Opera review by Nick from England
    Rated - 3 stars There are better versions of this classic tale 24 November 2004
    ...t and the performances range from good enough, to very good; with the excellent Claude Rains being at the business end of that statement. Ten years prior to this film, Rain...  

Claude Rains - filmography


  • The Greatest Story Ever Told on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Pat Boone,  John Wayne
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: U
    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, ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (66%)
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  • Lawrence Of Arabia on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Omar Sharif,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: 12
    David Lean's masterpiece--perhaps the greatest of screen epics--stars Peter O'Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history. The film is less an ordinary adventure than an experience that leaves an overwhelming sense of the struggle between two powerful forces: the Arabian deserts, ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (79%)
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  • The Passionate Friends (1948)
    Starring: Ann Todd,  Claude Rains,  Trevor Howard
    Director: David Lean
    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 ...
    Rate this: 1.5 (33%)
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  • Notorious on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ingrid Bergman,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: U
    NOTORIOUS is Alfred Hitchcock's classic romantic espionage thriller, with passionate, brilliant performances by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, featuring one of the most famous screen kisses in film history. At the end of World War II, American military intelligence drafts the alluring daughter (...
    Rate this: 3.5 (75%)
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  • Casablanca (2 discs) on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: U
    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.
    Rate this: 4.0 (80%)
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  • The Phantom Of The Opera on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Nelson Eddy,  Susanna Foster,  Claude Rains
    Director: Arthur Lubin
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 (58%)
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  • Now Voyager on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Paul Henreid,  Claude Rains
    Director: Irving Rapper
    Certificate: TBC
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available. Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.
    Rate this: 4.0 (79%)
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  • The Wolf Man on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Warren William,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: George Waggner
    Certificate: PG
    In this classic Universal monster movie, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) returns to his father's castle in Wales to join a beautiful woman (Evelyn Ankers). Talbot escorts her to a local carnival, where a gypsy fortune teller predicts the horrors that await, and brings to light the curse of the wolf.
    Rate this: 3.0 (65%)
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  • The Sea Hawk on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Errol Flynn,  Brenda Marshall,  Claude Rains
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (76%)
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  • The Invisible Man on DVD (1933)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Gloria Stuart,  Henry Travers
    Director: James Whale
    Certificate: 12
    Making a magnificent screen debut, Claude Rains stars as a scientist driven mad by an invisibility potion in this adaptation of H.G. Wells's classic story. Featuring groundbreaking special effects, the film follows the increasingly demented Jack Griffin (Rains) on his murderous rampage through an ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (74%)
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Claude Rains - downloads


  • The Lost World for Download (1960)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  David Hedison,  Jill St. John
    Director: Irwin Allen
    Certificate: PG
    Rent from: £2.99
    Buy from: £5.99
    Run time: 96 minutes
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3
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  • Caesar And Cleopatra for Download (1945)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Jean Simmons,  Vivien Leigh
    Director: Gabriel Pascal
    Certificate: U
    Buy from: £4.99
    Run time: 122 minutes
    In this film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's lavish epic, the venerable Julius Caesar (Claude Rains) meets Cleopatra (Vivian Leigh) under the Sphinx in ancient Egypt. Although the Roman Emperor finds her childishly innocent, she is capable of seizing the throne from her brother and cold-...
    Rate this: 3
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  • The Wolf Man for Download (1941)
    Starring: Bela Lugosi,  Claude Rains,  Evelyn Ankers
    Director: George Waggner
    Certificate: PG
    Buy from: £9.99
    Run time: 70 minutes
    In this classic Universal monster movie, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) returns to his father's castle in Wales to join a beautiful woman (Evelyn Ankers). Talbot escorts her to a local carnival, where a gypsy fortune teller predicts the horrors that await, and brings to light the curse of the wolf.
    Rate this: 3.5 (70%)
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Claude Rains facts

5 most recent films


The Greatest Story Ever Told - 3.0 stars
Lawrence Of Arabia - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - 3.5 stars
The Passionate Friends - 1.5 stars
Notorious - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Now Voyager - 4.0 stars
Casablanca - 4.0 stars
The Adventures Of Robin Hood - 3.5 stars
The Sea Hawk - 3.5 stars
Lawrence Of Arabia - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


The Passionate Friends - 1.5 stars
The Last Outpost - 2.5 stars
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - 3.5 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - 3.0 stars
Errol Flynn - Signature Collection - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Errol Flynn - 3 times - show films
Olivia De Havilland - 3 times - show films
Bette Davis - 3 times - show films
Paul Henreid - 3 times - show films
Patrick Knowles - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Michael Curtiz - 4 times - show films
George Waggner - 2 times - show films
David Lean - 2 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films
William Keighley - 1 times - show films