Now, Voyager (1942)
Drama | Romance
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase, Bonita Granville
Director: Irving Rapper
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Drama
An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption.
Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee
Director: Frank Capra
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Drama | Romance
Whose face – ravaged, grotesque – is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffiington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even after her marriage. But now diphtheria has robber her of her only attribute. And without her looks, she's lost.
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring, George Coulouris, Marjorie Riordan
Director: Vincent Sherman
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Drama | Horror | Music | Romance | Thriller
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom" whom none can find in the mazes and catacombs. But both of Christine's lovers have plans to ferret him out.
Starring: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Hume Cronyn
Director: Arthur Lubin
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Adventure | Drama | War
Unfolded in a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, this is the story of Jean Matrac, a freedom-loving French journalist who sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny. The film opens as French liason officer Freycinet, stationed in London, tells Mantrac's story to a British reporter. Freycinet reveals that Mantrac, happily married to Paula, was framed by pro-fascists and sentenced to Devil's Island. Here he engineered a daring escape with such lost souls as Marius, Garou, Petit and Renault. Adrift in a lifeboat, the escapees were picked up by a French vessel commandeered by pro-fascist Major Duval. With the help of Mantrac and the prisoners, the ship's patriotic captain thwarted Duval's evil machinations, enabling Mantrac to continue his battle against Nazism as a member of the RAF.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Helmut Dantine
Director: Michael Curtiz
The Wolf Man (1941)
Drama | Horror
A British nobleman undergoes a startling transformation when he's bitten by a gypsy werewolf.
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles
Director: George Waggner
The Invisible Man (1933)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A scientist's experiments with invisibility turn him into a madman.
Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor, William Harrigan, Forrester Harvey
Director: James Whale
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Notorious (1946)
Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
At the end of World War II, U.S. military intelligence drafts a beautiful woman with a tainted past to infiltrate a band of nefarious Germans who are in Brazil. She is teamed with Devlin, a dashing but chilly agent with whom she falls deeply in love. In order to have better access to information she agrees to marry the ringleader of the Germans. The marriage touches off an intricate downward spiral of deceit and betrayal, leaving Bergman trapped in the home of an enemy. If her husband ever discovers the truth about her mission, her life will be in mortal danger.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Casablanca (1942)
Drama | Romance | War
Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Casablanca during World War II. Ilsa, a woman Rick was once in love with when he lived in Paris and never quite got over, walks into his nightclub. She's in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a resistance leader with Nazis hot on his trail.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Director: Michael Curtiz
