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Elsa Lanchester has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Bride of Frankenstein.
Harvey
1950
Comedy · Fantasy

Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Mary Poppins
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Prime Video · Included

Blackbeard's Ghost
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Disney+ · Included

Bell, Book and Candle
1958 · Movie · Actor
Top 41%Tubi · Free w/ ads

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
Dir. James Whale · With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Dir. Henry Koster · With Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
Dir. John Farrow · With Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette

Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson. Using her magical powers, she casts a love spell on him, only to face unexpected complications when genuine feelings emerge, threatening her supernatural abilities.
Dir. Richard Quine · With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
Dir. Fred M. Wilcox · With Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Dir. Daniel Mann · With Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine
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