Claude Rains — Actor (28)
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Anthony Adverse (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Anthony Adverse
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Fredric March / Olivia de Havilland …
other title: Avorio nero / Ein rastloses Leben …
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gold Is Where You Find It
director: Michael Curtiz actor: George Brent / Olivia de Havilland …
other title: Occidente in fiamme / Goldene Erde Kalifornien …
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Four Wives (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Four Wives
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Priscilla Lane / Rosemary Lane …
other title: Quatre Jeunes Femmes
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Daughters Courageous (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Daughters Courageous
director: Michael Curtiz actor: John Garfield / Claude Rains …
other title: Profughi dell'amore / Vier Töchter räumen auf
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
director: Harold French actor: Claude Rains / Marius Goring …
other title: Illusione / Der Mann, der sich selbst nicht kannte …
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
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The Prince and the Pauper (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Prince and the Pauper
director: William Keighley actor: Errol Flynn / Claude Rains …
other title: Il principe e il povero / Mit eiserner Faust …
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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Battle of the Worlds (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Il pianeta degli uomini spenti
director: Antonio Margheriti actor: Claude Rains / Bill Carter …
other title: Il pianeta degli uomini spenti / La Planète des hommes perdus …
A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets.
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Sealed Cargo (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sealed Cargo
director: Alfred L. Werker actor: Dana Andrews / Carla Balenda …
other title: Il vascello misterioso / O Corsário Maldito …
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
director: Alexander Hall actor: Robert Montgomery / Evelyn Keyes …
other title: L'inafferrabile signor Jordan / Urlaub vom Himmel …
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
director: Bretaigne Windust actor: Van Johnson / Claude Rains …
other title: El flautista de Hamelín
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.