John Carradine — Actor (86)
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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) [Movie] TMDB
The Prisoner of Shark Island
director: John Ford actor: Warner Baxter / Gloria Stuart …
other title: Il prigioniero dell'isola degli squali / Fangen paa Haj-Øen …
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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The Sign of the Cross (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Sign of the Cross
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Fredric March / Elissa Landi …
other title: Il segno della croce / Im Zeichen des Kreuzes …
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
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The Movie Orgy (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Movie Orgy
director: Joe Dante actor: Goodman Ace / Jane Ace …
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Captains Courageous (1937) [Movie] TMDB
Captains Courageous
director: Victor Fleming actor: Freddie Bartholomew / Spencer Tracy …
other title: Capitani coraggiosi / Lobos do Mar …
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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House of Frankenstein (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
House of Frankenstein
director: Erle C. Kenton actor: Boris Karloff / Lon Chaney Jr. …
other title: Al di là del mistero / Frankensteins Hus …
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) [Movie] TMDB
The Invisible Man's Revenge
director: Ford Beebe actor: Jon Hall / Evelyn Ankers …
other title: La rivincita dell'uomo invisibile / Der Unsichtbare nimmt Rache …
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
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The Mummy's Ghost (1944) [Movie] TMDB
The Mummy's Ghost
director: Reginald Le Borg actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / John Carradine …
other title: Le fantôme de la momie / El fantasma de la momia
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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House of Dracula (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
House of Dracula
director: Erle C. Kenton actor: John Carradine / Onslow Stevens …
other title: La casa degli orrori / Draculas Haus …
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Grapes of Wrath
director: John Ford actor: Henry Fonda / Jane Darwell …
other title: Furore / Vredens druer …
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Around the World in Eighty Days
director: Michael Anderson actor: David Niven / Cantinflas …
other title: Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni / Jorden rundt i 80 dage …
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Johnny Guitar (1954) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Johnny Guitar
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Joan Crawford / Sterling Hayden …
other title: Johnny Guitar - Wenn Frauen hassen / Johnny Guitare
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon — even without proof of her wrongdoing.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Hound of the Baskervilles
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Richard Greene / Basil Rathbone …
other title: Sherlock Holmes e il mastino dei Baskerville / Sherlock Holmes: Baskervilles hund …
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
director: Woody Allen actor: Woody Allen / John Carradine …
other title: Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere sul sesso ma non avete mai osato chiedere / Min yndlingsperversion …
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
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The Last Tycoon (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban NeoDB WikiData
The Last Tycoon
director: Elia Kazan actor: Robert De Niro / Tony Curtis …
other title: Gli ultimi fuochi / O Último Magnata …
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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The Secret of NIMH (1982) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
The Secret of NIMH
director: Don Bluth actor: Elizabeth Hartman / Derek Jacobi …
other title: Brisby e il segreto di NIMH / Nihm: Fru Brisbys hemmelige verden …
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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Stagecoach (1939) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
Stagecoach
director: John Ford actor: Claire Trevor / John Wayne …
other title: Ombre rosse / Diligencen …
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.