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  • Casablanca
  • Casablanca review by 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 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...  
  • Stewart Granger Collection - Caesar And Cleopatra
  • Rated - 2 stars Perfect rainy day matinee 30 April 2004
    ...nt screen. The strongest aspects of the film are the central performances of Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh. She looks terrific and speaks wonderfully; he is a mixture of...  

Claude Rains - filmography


  • The Greatest Story Ever Told on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Pat Boone,  John Wayne
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: 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, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 577 members
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  • Lawrence Of Arabia on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Omar Sharif,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: 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, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 19,281 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 31 members
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  • Notorious on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ingrid Bergman,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: 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 (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,235 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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 287 members
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  • Casablanca on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 76% from 26,814 members
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  • The Wolf Man on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Warren William,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: George Waggner
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 64% from 490 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 »
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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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 8 members
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  • The Invisible Man on DVD (1933)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Gloria Stuart,  Henry Travers
    Director: James Whale
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
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  • The Man Who Watched Trains Go By to Watch Now (1952)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Marius Goring,  Marta Toren
    Director: Harold French
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 77 minutes
    Meak head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with Parisian girl Michelle. After a confrontation between the two men De Koster ends up dead and Popinga makes off to Paris with the remaining ..read more »
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  • Angel on My Shoulder to Watch Now (1946)
    Starring: Paul Muni,  Anne Baxter,  Claude Rains
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 100 minutes
    On the death of a gangster he goes to "hell" where he enters into an arrangement for his return to earth as a respected Judge. His motives of revenge fade away.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5 members
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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 - 3.0 stars
The Passionate Friends - 3.0 stars
Notorious - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

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

5 lowest-rated films

The Last Outpost - 2.5 stars
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - 3.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Deception - 3.5 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Watch On The Rhine - 3.5 stars
The Prince And The Pauper - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Henreid - 8 times - show films
Bette Davis - 6 times - show films
Bette Davis - 6 times - show films
Olivia De Havilland - 5 times - show films
Ingrid Bergman - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Curtiz - 6 times - show films
Edmund Goulding - 3 times - show films
Anatole Litvak - 3 times - show films
Herman Shumlin - 3 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films