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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Agatha Christie, Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz
Cast Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Plot A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
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Director Frank Lloyd
Writer Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson
Cast Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Plot First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
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Director William Dieterle
Writer Sonya Levien, Bruno Frank, Victor Hugo
Cast Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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The Big Clock (1948)
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Director John Farrow
Writer Jonathan Latimer, Kenneth Fearing, Harold Goldman
Cast Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton
Plot A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
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Director Erle C. Kenton
Writer Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells
Cast Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen
Plot A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
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Hobson's Choice (1954)
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Director David Lean
Writer Harold Brighouse, David Lean, Norman Spencer
Cast Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie
Plot Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
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The Old Dark House (1932)
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Director James Whale
Writer J.B. Priestley, Benn W. Levy, R.C. Sherriff
Cast Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Plot Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
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Director Leo McCarey
Writer Harry Leon Wilson, Walter DeLeon, Harlan Thompson
Cast Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles
Plot An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Les Miserables aka Les Mis rables (1935)
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Director Richard Boleslawski
Writer Victor Hugo, W.P. Lipscomb
Cast Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot In early-19th-century France, an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20-year period by an obsessive policeman.
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The Paradine Case (1947)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Robert Hichens, Alma Reville, David O. Selznick
Cast Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
Plot A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
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Director Alexander Korda
Writer Lajos Bira, Arthur Wimperis
Cast Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
Plot King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
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This Land Is Mine (1943)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Dudley Nichols, Jean Renoir, Jean Rozenberg
Cast Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders
Plot A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
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Jamaica Inn (1939)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Daphne Du Maurier, Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison
Cast Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
Plot In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
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The Suspect (1944)
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Bertram Millhauser, Arthur T. Horman, James Ronald
Cast Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens
Plot An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.
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The Canterville Ghost (1944)
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Director Jules Dassin, Norman Z. McLeod
Writer Oscar Wilde, Edwin Blum
Cast Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien
Plot The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
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It Started with Eve (1941)
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Director Henry Koster
Writer Norman Krasna, Leo Townsend, Hanns Kra¤ly
Cast Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
Plot In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.
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If I Had a Million (1932)
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Director James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Robert Hardy Andrews, Claude Binyon, Whitney Bolton
Cast Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields
Plot A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
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Director Sidney Franklin
Writer Rudolph Besier, Ernest Vajda, Claudine West
Cast Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Plot Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
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Rembrandt (1936)
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Director Alexander Korda
Writer Carl Zuckmayer, June Head, Lajos Bira
Cast Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Plot The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
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The Bribe (1949)
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Director Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli
Writer Marguerite Roberts, Frederick Nebel
Cast Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
Plot Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.
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Captain Kidd (1945)
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Director Rowland V. Lee
Writer Norman Reilly Raine, Robert N. Lee
Cast Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton
Plot The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
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St. Martin's Lane aka The Sidewalks of London (1938)
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Director Tim Whelan
Writer Clemence Dane, Charles Laughton, Bartlett Cormack
Cast Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison
Plot Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
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Arch of Triumph (1948)
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Director Lewis Milestone
Writer Lewis Milestone, Harry Brown, Erich Maria Remarque
Cast Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton
Plot Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
