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Terror in the Wax Museum

Terror in the Wax Museum (1976) starring Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, John Carradine Terror in the Wax Museum is an interesting murder mystery. It’s set in Victorian London, 10 years after Jack the Ripper’s murder spree …
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The Razor’s Edge

The Razor's Edge (1946), starring Herbert Marshall, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Clifton Webb, Anne Baxter
The Razor’s Edge (1946), starring Herbert Marshall, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Clifton Webb, Anne Baxter Why did survive? That’s the question that World War I veteran Tyrone Powers is trying to answer in The Razor’s Edge – putting all else aside
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The Bishop’s Wife

The Bishop's Wife (1947) starring Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) starring Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young The Bishop’s Wife is a delightful Christmas movie, about an overworked bishop, who prays to God for help. And he gets an angelic answer. The answer he needs, not what he expected.
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Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution, starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich In Witness for the Prosecution, a wealthy widow is found murdered. Her married suitor, Leonard Vole, is accused of the crime. Vole’s only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife … But...
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Mystery Street

Mystery Street, starring Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester
Mystery Street (1950) starring Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester Synopsis of Mystery Street In Mystery Street, a Harvard professor helps a small town policeman when the skeletal remains of a pregnant prostitute turn up on a Massachusetts beach.
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Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable (1949), starring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez
Come to the Stable (1949), starring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez Synopsis of Come to the Stable In Come to the Stable, a pair of French nuns fulfill their promise to God.  By moving to New England to found a children’s hospital. A pleasingly warm movie...
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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clivereviewed by: The masked reviewer Bride of Frankenstein begins with Mary Shelley informing her friends that she has written a sequel to her masterpiece. She begins this story at the end of Frankenstein with Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin...
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Pajama Party

Pajama Party (1964) starring Annette Funicello, Don Rickles, Buster Keaton
Pajama Party (1964) starring Annette Funicello, Don Rickles, Buster Keaton  In short, Pajama Party  is an Annette Funicello beach party movie.  But in addition to the gyrating young girls in bikinis,Pajama Party adds large amounts of clown-level  zaniness as well. The basic story has 3 intertwining plots – a Martian...
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David Copperfield

David Copperfield (1935) starring Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, W.C. Fields
David Copperfield (1935) starring  Freddie Bartholomew,  Frank Lawton,  W.C. Fields, Basil Rathbone  There’s a lot of good things to be said about  David Copperfield — fine acting all around, interesting characters that the audience cares about, good cinematography, etc. I’d like to point out a few highlights: Basil...
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