Cast: Charles Laughton

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London,...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak

Plot A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Don Murray · Charles Laughton · Henry Fonda

Plot Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Charles Laughton · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Herbert Mundin

Plot MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the classic tale of one of the most infamous adventures on the high seas. The story is based on the fictional accounts written by Charles...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney....

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Charles Laughton · Ella Raines · Henry Daniell · Rosalind Ivan

Plot In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him...

Direction David Lean

Cast Charles Laughton · John Mills · Brenda De Banzie · Daphne Anderson

Plot David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)...

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester · Gertrude Lawrence · Edward Chapman

Plot A character study focusing on the later life (particularly at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s) of Rembrandt Van Rijn is depicted through a series of vignettes....

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Charles Laughton · Binnie Barnes · Robert Donat · Elsa Lanchester

Plot This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal castle, it begins just before the death...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Plot A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Cedric Hardwicke · Rochelle Hudson

Plot Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character and great strength, is convicted of stealing a loaf of bread, an act that sets in motion a lifetime of misery for Valjean,...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Ray Milland · Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan · George Macready

Plot Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts

Plot While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage...

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Gilda Gray · Anna May Wong · Jameson Thomas · Charles Laughton

Plot The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is infatuated with Mabel, but she rejects his advances, since she is in love...

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams

Plot An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

Direction Bill Duncalf

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Josef von Sternberg · Charles Laughton · Robert Graves

Plot This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by Josef Von Sternberg and produced by Alexander Korda with an...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Claudette Colbert · Elissa Landi

Plot After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Gregory Peck · Ann Todd · Charles Laughton · Charles Coburn

Plot Keane (Gregory Peck) is a handsome, young lawyer who falls in love with a beautiful client named Paradine (Alida Valli), a woman accused of murdering her blind husband. Although he's...