And Then There Were None 1945  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Rene Clair
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Roland Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, Mischa Auer, Richard Haydn, Queenie Leonard, Harry Thurston
A mysterious host invites 10 people to spend a weekend in a house on a deserted island . Once assembled, the guests hear a record that accuses them all of past murders. Then the guests become murder victims, one by one. From an Agatha Christie story, this was remade several times as "Ten Little Indians." This one, however, remains one of the best.
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Anthony Adverse 1936  N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Anita Louise, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Woods, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Louis Hayward
Set in the early 1800s, this is the story of Anthony Adverse (Fredric March), an adventurer who runs afoul of Napoleon and heads for America to seek fame and fortune. Gale Sondergaard won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. The film won three other Academy Awards and nominations included Best Picture.
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Dance, Girl, Dance 1940  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel, Harold Huber, Ernest Truex, Chester Clute, Emma Dunn, Sidney Blackmer
Judy O'Brien (Maureen O'Hara) arrives in New York City planning to gain fame as a ballerina. As luck would have it, she gets a job working as a stooge for strip-tease dancer Bubbles (Lucille Ball) who dances a ballet as a lead-in to her strip show. The two women encounter problems when they both fall for playboy Jimmy Harris (Louis Hayward), and physical fighting is used to determine who should have Jimmy. But that issue is settled after Jimmy's ex-wife (Virginia Field) decides to take him back.
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A Feather in Her Hat 1935  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast: Pauline Lord, Louis Hayward, Basil Rathbone, Billie Burke, Wendy Barrie, Thurston Hall, J.M. Kerrigan, David Niven, Victor Varconi, Nydia Westman
In an attempt to ensure her son (Louis Hayward) a better chance in life, Clarissa Phipps (Pauline Lord) falsifies his identity to make it appear that he did not come from a humble heritage.
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House by the River 1950 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Jody Gilbert, Sarah Padden, Peter Brocco, Howland Chamberlain, Margaret Seddon, Kathleen Freeman, Will Wright
After Stephen (Louis Hayward) accidentally murders a maid, his brother, John (Lee Bowman), helps him hide the body. But, when police find the body, John, not Stephen, becomes the prime suspect.
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 The Man in the Iron Mask 1939 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Miles Mander, Bert Roach, Walter Kingsford, Marion Martin, Montagu Love, Peter Cushing, Albert Dekker, Doris Kenyon
This is a good rendition of Alexandre Dumas' classic story of twin brothers (both played by Louis Hayward)–one becomes the King of France and the other is sprung from prison and raised by the Three Musketeers (Alan Hale, Miles Mander, and Bert Roach). The renegade brother is forced to wear an iron mask to hide the fact that he is the legitimate heir to the throne, else his brother would do him in. Elaborate adventure. Look for Peter Cushing as a messenger to the King in his first screen role.
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Pirates of Capri 1949 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action
aka: Captain Sirocco
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Alan Curtis, Mariella Lotti, Massimo Serato, Mikhail Rasumny, Virginia Belmont, Franca Marzi, William Tubbs, Alberto Califano, Maria Auritano, Michel Sorel, Eleonora Rossi Drago
By day, pirate Captain Sirocco (Louis Hayward) disguises himself as Count di Amalfi, which enables him to spy on the Naples court of Queen Carolina (Binnie Barnes). At night, Sirocco puts on a mask and leads the rebels of Capri in an effort to overthrow Queen Carolina and her evil police chief Commodore Van Diel (Alan Curtis). Good action scenes.
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The Rage of Paris 1938 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mischa Auer, Louis Hayward, Helen Broderick, Charles Coleman, Samuel S. Hinds, Nella Walker, Harry Davenport, Lionel Pape, Mary Forbes, Leonard Mudie
Nicole de Cortillon (Danielle Darrieux) needs money. Her solution: catch a rich husband. Wealthy Canadian Bill Duncan (Louis Hayward) becomes the target, and the plan works–until Bill's friend, Jim (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), enters the scene and complications are assured.
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The Saint in New York 1938 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Ben Holmes
Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Ruman, Jonathan Hale, Jack Carson, Paul Guilfoyle, Frederick Burton, Ben Welden, Charles Halton, Paul Fix
This is the first in a series of Saint films based on the novel by Leslie Charteris. Simon Templar, the Saint, is a cool, urbane detective who, in this entry is called in to deal with a major crime wave in New York. The entire series is generally well done. Hayward starred only in this and the final ("The Saint's Girl Friday") episodes.
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The Saint's Return 1954 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Saint's Girl Friday
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Jane(2) Carr, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Thomas Gallagher, William(2) Russell, Fred Johnson
Hayward, who was the first Saint in 1938, is back for one last episode, the first one in 11 years. The Saint returns to London and finds his ex-girlfriend murdered. He tracks down the killers as they prepare to strike again.
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The Son of Monte Cristo 1941 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates, Lionel Royce, Montagu Love, Ian Wolfe, Clayton Moore, Ralph Byrd, Georges Renavent, Michael Visaroff, Rand Brooks
In 1865, when Grand Duchess Zona (Joan Bennett) seeks aid from France to regain her family's rule of Lichtenburg, the Count of Monte Cristo (Louis Hayward) helps in toppling the regime of General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders).
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The Strange Woman 1946 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams, June Storey, Moroni Olsen, Alan Napier, Dennis Hoey
Bangor, Maine, was a bustling, brawling lumber town in the early 1800s when beautiful, young Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) accepted a marriage proposal from wealthy businessman Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart), 20 years her senior. Shrewd for her age (due in part to having to deal with her drunken father for many years), she uses her new wealth to her advantage, including courting other men. Well acted and directed.
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Terror in the Wax Museum 1973  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Georg Fenady
Cast: Ray Milland, Broderick Crawford, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, Shani Wallis, John Carradine, Louis Hayward, Patric Knowles, Mark Edwards, Lisa Lu
Talent is wasted in this dull murder mystery surrounding the killing of the owner (John Carradine) of a wax museum. When watching this film, close examination reveals the wax people seem to move. No, that couldn't be.
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Trouble for Two 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Suicide Club
Director: J. Walter Ruben
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Louis Hayward, E.E. Clive, Walter Kingsford, Ivan F. Simpson, Robert Greig, Pedro de Cordoba
Taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" stories, this lighthearted mystery promises much, but falls short in the end. Prince Florizel (Robert Montgomery) is heir to the throne of Karovia. He joins a mysterious Suicide Club and must survive a series of lethal traps to gain the crown and regain his princess (Rosalind Russell).
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Walk a Crooked Mile 1948 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond, Onslow Stevens, Raymond Burr, Philip Van Zandt, Art Baker, Lowell Gilmore, Charles Evans
Scotland Yard joins the FBI and cracks a spy case in which US nuclear secrets are being given to the Russians.
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| 1. And Then There Were None (1945)
2. Anthony Adverse (1936)
3. Chuka (1967)
4. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
5. A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
6. House by the River (1950)
7. Ladies in Retirement (1941)
8. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
9. Pirates of Capri (1949)
aka: Captain Sirocco
10. The Rage of Paris (1938)
11. The Saint in New York (1938)
12. The Saint's Return (1954)
aka: The Saint's Girl Friday
13. The Son of Monte Cristo (1941)
14. The Strange Woman (1946)
15. Terror in the Wax Museum (1973)
16. Trouble for Two (1936)
aka: The Suicide Club
17. Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
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