Biography: Henry Daniell |
With his haughty demeanor and near-satanic features, British actor Henry Daniell was the perfect screen "gentleman villain" in such major films of the 1930s and 1940s as Camille (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940). An actor since the age of 18,... more
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)
Cast: Edgar Buchanan Cornel Wilde
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 85min
The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin Hood (Russell Hicks). Robert elects to follow in his father's footsteps when oppression rears its ugly head in the form of a...
Tags: Adventure Escape Film
Length: 75min
Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret of St. Ives, Ney plays Anatole de Keroual, the unofficial head of a group of French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars....
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror Thriller
Length: 70min
An angry head-shrinker (not a psychiatrist) puts a curse upon a family of white traders in this well-wrought low-budget horror film. It must have been a doozy for 200 years later it is still going strong. The story opens as the eldest male descendant...
Cast: Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Robert Wise
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 77min
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi were given top billing in the Val Lewton-produced The Body Snatcher, but the film's protagonist is played by Henry Daniell. A brilliant 18th century London surgeon, Daniell can only make his humanitarian medical advances...
Cast: Maria Montez
Length: 75min
Siren of Atlantis is the third movie version of Pierre Benoit's fantasy novel L'Atlantide, first film in 1921. Jean-Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe star as Foreign Legionnaires Andre and Jean, who while on a routine mission in the African desert...
Cast: Katharine Hepburn Robert Walker Paul Henreid Leo G. Carroll Clarence Brown
Tags: Romance Drama Biopic Musical Drama
Length: 121min
Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker, who the previous year had played another composer,...
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Cast: Basil Rathbone
Tags: Mystery Detective Film Spy Film
Length: 71min
One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also undeniably one of the most enjoyable. The story gets under way when an Allied spy (an unbilled Gerald Hamer, one of this series'...
Cast: Orson Welles Bernard Herrmann Joan Fontaine Elizabeth Taylor Agnes Moorehead
Tags: Period Film Romantic Drama Melodrama Romance Drama
Length: 97min
Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance Jane Eyre. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 68min
Based on Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House, this "Sherlock Holmes" entry finds Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) trying to solve the case of the "Finger Murders". Several beautiful women have been found slain, all with...
Cast: Charles Laughton Robert Siodmak
Tags: Film Noir Thriller Police Detective Film Psychological Thriller
Length: 85min
The Suspect is a well turned out period melodrama, with an excellent leading performance by Charles Laughton. He plays an amiable, hopelessly henpecked shopkeeper who yearns for the affections of pretty stenographer Ella Raines. When he is pushed to...
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