Captain John Smith and Pocahontas 1953  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Clarke, Stuart Randall, James Seay, Philip Van Zandt, Shepard Menken, Douglass Dumbrille, Anthony Eustrel, William Cottrell, Henry Rowland
The legend of Captain John Smith and Indian princess Pocahontas is the theme of this story in which Pocahontas saves Smith's life and continues through their ill-fated romantic future in the colony of Jamestown.
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Julius Caesar 1953  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Edmond O'Brien, George Macready, Michael Pate, Richard Hale, Alan Napier, John Hoyt, William Cottrell, Tom Powers, Ian Wolfe
This rendition of Shakespeare's play is excellent. Marlon Brando's performance as Mark Anthony is powerful, and James Mason's portrayal of Brutus is just as good. The film received an Oscar for Art Direction/Set Decoration and had four other nominations, including Best Picture and Actor (Brando).
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1949  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Burgess Meredith
Cast: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace, Patricia Roc, Belita, Wilfrid Hyde-White, William Phipps, William Cottrell, George Thorpe, Chaz Chase, Howard Vernon
Based on Georges Simenon's novel, this is an intriguing tale of a cat-and-mouse game played between police Inspector Jules Maigret (Charles Laughton) and Radek (Franchot Tone), which leads to a climactic chase over Paris rooftops.
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The Strange Door 1951 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Wyler, Michael Pate, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Napier, William Cottrell, Morgan Farley, Charles Horvath
This is the adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" in which the mad Frenchman, Alan de Maletroit (Charles Laughton), cannot control his insane jealousy and throws his brother Edmond (Paul Cavanagh) in the dungeon while forcing a marriage on his brother's daughter, Blanche (Sally Forrest).
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| 1. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
2. Julius Caesar (1953)
aka: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
3. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
4. The Strange Door (1951)
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