Charles Laughton Movies

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is...

Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive...

After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming...

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors'...

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.