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1	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) more movies like this directed by Billy Wilder featuring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window when he takes up the defense of Leonard Vole ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £6.32!
2	The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) more movies like this directed by James Whale featuring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernst Thesiger, Dwight Frye This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling conversation. The wicked Byron mockingly chastises Mary for frightening the literary world with ... see all copies from £3.08! new only from £12.49!
3	Come to the Stable (1949) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent, Loretta Young without) who come to America in hopes of raising funds for a children's hospital. Travelling to a small New England town presciently named Bethlehem, the nuns befriend eccentric painter Elsa Lanchester, who allows them to ... see all copies from £16.90! new only from £69.62!
4	Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) more movies like this directed by Robert Stevenson featuring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to come to aid of his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester. The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Dean ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.45!
5	Bell, Book and Candle (1958) more movies like this directed by Richard Quine featuring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester John Van Druten's stage comedy Bell Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming in Hitchcock's Vertigo. Novak plays Gillian Holroyd, a genuine, bonafide witch. Falling in love with publisher Sheperd Henderson (Stewart), Gillian ... see all copies from £5.25! new only from £11.57!
6	Naughty Marietta (1935) more movies like this directed by W.S. Van Dyke featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglas Dumbrille The first of MGM's phenomenally profitable Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals, Naughty Marietta takes several beneficial liberties with the libretto of the original Victor Herbert operetta. MacDonald plays an 18th-century French princess who escapes an arranged marriage by posing as a "cake girl," a mail-order bride sent to the New World to ... see all copies from £7.96!
7	The Inspector General (1949) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery in The Inspector General. Kaye plays the illiterate stooge of two-bit medicine-show- entrepreneur Walter Slezak. Abandoned by Slezak, the starving Kaye wanders into a corruption-ridden Russian village, which is all geared up ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £2.73!
8	Lassie Come Home (1943) more movies like this directed by Fred Wilcox featuring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Elsa Lanchester, Nigel Bruce Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have actually been well-disguised males. A magnificent animal named Pal was the screen's first Lassie in 1943's Lassie Come Home. Set in Yorkshire during the first World War, the film gets under way when the poverty-stricken parents ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.32!
9	The Big Clock (1948) more movies like this directed by John Farrow featuring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum), is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale 1940s New York and offering an early (but accurate) ... see all copies from £3.76! new only from £7.38!
10	The Glass Slipper (1955) more movies like this directed by Charles Walters featuring Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester The Glass Slipper is a charming retelling of the Cinderella story, eminently suitable for both kids and adults. Leslie Caron plays Ella, the plain-Jane stepsister of beautiful but mean-spirited Birdena (Amanda Blake) and Serafina (Lisa Daniels). While stepmother Widow Sonder (Elsa Lanchester) arranges wealthy marriages for her natural daughters, ... see all copies from £14.73! new only from £21.15!
11 view cover	Rascal (1969) more movies like this directed by Norman Tokar featuring Steve Forrest, Bill Mumy, Pamela Toll, Elsa Lanchester Rascal, the Sterling North novel that has been a longtime fixture of Scholastic Magazine book clubs, was given Tiffany treatment by the Disney studios in 1969. Bill Mumy plays young Sterling North, whose Wisconsin childhood is enriched through his friendship with a stray raccoon. Though lacking the emotional depth of the novel, the film is ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £3.93!
12 view cover	Die Laughing (1980) more movies like this directed by Jeff Werner featuring Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester, Bud Cort In this black comedy, a humble cab driver spends his days daydreaming of becoming a rock-star. His blissful reverie is one day interrupted when ends up inadvertently blamed for the assassination of a world-renowned nuclear scientist. Soon afterward he finds that he has a stowaway, the late scientist's chimpanzee, the only one who knows his master ... see all copies from £7.44!
13 view cover	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) more movies like this directed by Alexander Korda featuring Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII. Alexander Korda's British super-production also put the British cinema on the map, which, until this film, received precious little respect in the international film community. The film, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, ... see all copies from £11.60! new only from £11.60!
14 view cover	Pajama Party (1964) more movies like this directed by Don Weis featuring Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck, Jesse White Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the gang in Pajama Party. Actually, the whole megillah is as innocent as a newborn babe, but there's plenty of smirking and snickering during a wild 'n' wacky girl's slumber party. Frankie Avalon has only a cameo, relinquishing center stage to Tommy Kirk, ... see all copies from £4.10! new only from £4.10!
15 view cover	Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) more movies like this directed by John Rich featuring Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest, Elsa Lanchester, Pat Harrington, Jr., Frank McHugh, Skip Ward Elvis Presley hits the high seas in this musical comedy. Ted Jackson (Presley) is a former Navy frogman who divides his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he believes could be a fortune in Spanish gold aboard a sunken ship and sets out to rescue it with the help of go-go dancing yoga expert Jo ... see all copies from £6.06! new only from £6.06!
16 view cover	Rembrandt (1936) more movies like this directed by Alexander Korda featuring Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman, John Bryning, Richard Gofe, Walter Hudd Lightning steadfastly refused to strike twice for the director/actor team of Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton. Though the pair had scored an international success with the 1933 quasi-biopic The Private Life of Henry VIII, they couldn't make the magic happen again with 1936's Rembrandt. Laughton's performance is solid throughout, and Korda's ... see all copies from £9.46! new only from £9.46!
17 view cover	The Ghost Goes West (1935) more movies like this directed by René Clair featuring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg, Ralph Bunker Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred to his Florida estate where he plans to reconstruct the castle brick by brick. Martin is unaware that his new acquisition comes equipped with an 18th-century ghost, played by Robert Donat. As the spectre, who feels as ... see all copies from £4.44!
18 view cover	The Beachcomber (1938) more movies like this directed by Bartlett Cormack, Erich Pommer featuring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton, Dolly Mollinger Based on a story by Somerset Maugham, The Beachcomber was originally released in Great Britain as Vessel of Wrath. This English version was much franker--and much more fun--than the abbreviated, watered-down US release prints. Even the American version, however, is successful in capturing the spirit of Maugham's tale of slovenly remittance man ... see all copies from £7.13! new only from £11.60!
19 view cover	Willard (1971) more movies like this directed by Daniel Mann featuring Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante This film is based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks, by Stephen Gilbert. Bruce Davison is Willard Stiles, a 27-year-old mama's boy whose repressions are bottled up inside and come to the fore in his nervous nail-biting. As one character describes Willard, "Willard is basically an extrovert, but it's all inside." Willard and his possessive invalid ... see all copies from £18.02!
20 view cover	Northwest Outpost (1947) more movies like this directed by Allan Dwan featuring Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut, Elsa Lanchester Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical Northwest Outpost. The story is set in the 1830s, when a good portion of California was owned by Russia. US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual ... see all copies from £12.94!

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