John Carradine
Actor
- Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine…
- Katharine Hepburn stars as Mary, Queen of Scots who, after languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth I's command, is offered a pardon if she will…
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Claire Trevor, John Wayne, John Carradine
- As the first fully realised Western, this blazed the trail for all subsequent efforts, as well as carrying John Wayne to stardom. Panoramic…
- Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver…
- Minor Ford drama with Fonda and Colbert as newlyweds whose farming career gets stymied by the Revolutionary War and attacks from Native Americans.…
- Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Carradine
- Henry Fonda stars in this masterful humanist film about a group of destitute Oklahoma farmers that trek to California in hope of a better life. One…
- Swamp Water (1941)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter…
- An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
- Man Hunt (1941)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders…
- A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
- House of Frankenstein (1944)
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney…
- Genuinely odd horror film in the Universal Studios stable, has scientist Karloff rolling out a monster freakshow of the 'classics', including…
- House of Dracula (1945)
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens…
- Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.
- Captain Kidd (1945)
- Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton…
- Charles Laughton has a great time playing the 17th century English pirate, who swindles King William III. Rollicking production is a nicely comic…
- Johnny Guitar (1953)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden…
- Cowgirls Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge come head to head over the men they love in this wild Western soap opera, brimming with quirky…
- Female Jungle (1956)
- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine
- Lawrence Tierney, in a rare leading role, plays a hard–drinking cop who puzzles over a nightclub murder encumbered with a 'hangover'. Careful…
- Incredible Petrified World, The (1957)
- Dir. Jerry Warren
Feat. John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates
- This slimly plotted adventure has four divers trapped in an undersea cavern with a grim–faced hermit. This dull fate is soon livened by…
- Patsy, The (1964)
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, John Carradine, Nancy Kulp…
- The retinue of a recently–deceased celebrity connive to groom his bellhop to impersonate him and thus continue the gravy train. Of course with…
- Trouble With Girls, The (1969)
- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Elvis Presley, Marlyn Manson, Nicole Jaffe…
- Behind the misleading title, this atypically quirky late Elvis movie sees him running a 1920s travelling circus sideshow, with an excellent…
- McMasters, The (Blood Crowd, The) (1970)
- Dir. Alf Kjellin
Feat. Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine…
- A tough depiction of post–Civil War strife, with former slave Peters, who fought for the Union, trying to start over in the American southwest.…
- Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973)
- Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…
- Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
- Shock Waves (Almost Human, Death Corps) (1977)
- Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, John Carradine
- Cushing plays a Nazi scientist wrecked in the Florida Keys since WWII, where he has remained hidden with his special squad of underwater zombie…
- Golden Rendezvous (1977)
- Dir. Ashley Lazarus
Feat. Richard Harris, John Vernon, Gordon Jackson…
- Richard Harris dodges bullets in this daffy thriller about a luxury cruise liner held to ransom by terrorists. This early UNDER SIEGE provided plenty…
- Boogeyman, The (1980)
- Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James…
- Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement.
An American production starring…
- Scarecrow, The (1982)
- Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Jono Smith, Tracey Mann, Daniel McLaren…
- A fine film adaptation of Ronald Hugh Morrieson's classic New Zealand novel about a crazed killer who instills fear and paranoia in a small rural…
- Anthony and Cleopatra (1983)
- Dir. Lawrence Carra
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Lynn Redgrave, John Carradine…
- Above–par version of Shakespeare's Egyptian tragedy with the two leads giving particularly strong performances. Filmed in a…
- Ice Pirates, The (1984)
- Dir. Stewart Raffill
Feat. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts…
- Goofy sci–fi comedy set in a distant future where water is scarce on the planet earth. After a band of space pirates get caught raiding ice,…