Henry Daniell’s Typical Vibe
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Henry Daniell has 12 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 The Great Dictator.
Recurring themes

Oliver Twist
1948
Drama · Adventure

Dragonwyck
1946
Drama · Romance

Sanshiro Sugata
1943
Drama

Lady in the Lake
1946
Mystery · Thriller

Dark Passage
1947
Thriller · Mystery

Black Orpheus
1959
Drama · Romance

Samson and Delilah
1949
Romance · Drama

The Paradine Case
1947
Drama · Mystery

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie

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

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Dir. George Cukor · With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart

Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Dir. George Cukor · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
Dir. George Cukor · With Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Dir. Roy William Neill · With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke

as Sir Anthony Lloyd
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
Dir. John Rawlins · With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Edmund Purdom, Victor Mature, Peter Ustinov
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