Cedric Hardwicke’s Typical Vibe
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Cedric Hardwicke has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Rope.
Recurring themes

The Wolf Man
1941
Horror · Drama

Dragonwyck
1946
Drama · Romance

House of Dracula
1945
Horror · Science Fiction

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
Horror · Science Fiction

Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Drama · Thriller

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Drama · Horror

It Came from Outer Space
1953
Science Fiction · Horror

The Fly
1958
Science Fiction · Horror

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille · With Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Dir. Byron Haskin · With Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Lewis Martin

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Dir. William Dieterle · With Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Dir. Joe May · With Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey

as Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein / Dr. Henry Frankenstein (ghostly image)
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Dir. William Cameron Menzies · With Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
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