Search results for "Elsa Lanchester"
Terror in the Wax Museum

Terror in the Wax Museum

Terror in the Wax Museum
IMDb: 5
93

Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Arnold

Arnold

Arnold
IMDb: 5.7
94

Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold’s wealth are being killed…

Die Laughing

Die Laughing

Die Laughing
IMDb: 4.7
108

A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for…

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
IMDb: 7.1
98

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Les Miserables

Les Miserables

Les Miserables
IMDb: 6.8
105

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert,…

Buccaneer’s Girl

Buccaneer’s Girl

Buccaneer’s Girl
IMDb: 6.1
77

Buccaneer’s Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Douglas. A New Orleans singer becomes involved…

Murder by Death

Murder by Death

Murder by Death
IMDb: 7.4
94

Lionel Twain invites the world’s five greatest detectives to a ‘dinner and murder’. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more…

Willard

Willard

Willard
IMDb: 6.2
95

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a…

Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie
IMDb: 6.5
111

Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother’s encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle
IMDb: 6.8
106

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead… only to fall in love with him for real.

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
IMDb: 8.4
116

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Big Clock

The Big Clock

The Big Clock
IMDb: 7.7
95

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…

The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase
IMDb: 7.4
83

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with “afflictions”. One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home
IMDb: 7.1
88

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from…

The Razor’s Edge

The Razor’s Edge

The Razor’s Edge
IMDb: 7.4
145

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Glass Slipper

The Glass Slipper

The Glass Slipper
IMDb: 6.4
93

Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince’s ball.

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta
IMDb: 6.7
105

A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.

Genre: Drama, Music
Rascal

Rascal

Rascal
IMDb: 6.5
85

A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy’s only companion during his father’s frequent absences….

Genre: Drama, Family
Dreamboat

Dreamboat

Dreamboat
IMDb: 6.7
83

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor – secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero – is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a…

Genre: Comedy
The Girls of Pleasure Island

The Girls of Pleasure Island

The Girls of Pleasure Island
IMDb: 5.9
95

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins
IMDb: 7.8
139

A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

Blackbeard’s Ghost

Blackbeard’s Ghost

Blackbeard’s Ghost
IMDb: 6.9
106

Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of…

Hell’s Half Acre

Hell’s Half Acre

Hell’s Half Acre
IMDb: 6.3
90

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Bride of Frankenstein
IMDb: 7.8
75

Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale’s Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad…

Pajama Party

Pajama Party

Pajama Party
IMDb: 5
82

A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Rembrandt

Rembrandt

Rembrandt
IMDb: 7.1
85

This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends…

Genre: Drama
The Bishop’s Wife

The Bishop’s Wife

The Bishop’s Wife
IMDb: 7.6
109

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn…

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
IMDb: 7.5
92

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at…

Genre: Drama, Family
Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion
IMDb: 6.1
98

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as…

Genre: Comedy
That Darn Cat!

That Darn Cat!

That Darn Cat!
IMDb: 6.8
112

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wrist watch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

Ladies in Retirement

Ladies in Retirement

Ladies in Retirement
IMDb: 7.1
91

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon…

Genre: Drama