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John Carradine has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1980s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Stagecoach
1939 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Max · Included

The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Movie · Voice
Top 8%Prime Video · Included

The Howling
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

The Shootist
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Paramount+ · Included

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Dir. John Ford · With John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Dir. John Ford · With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Bancroft

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Dir. John Ford · With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine

A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Dir. Don Bluth · With Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Arthur Malet

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Dir. Victor Fleming · With Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer · With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders

Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
Dir. Don Siegel · With John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Dir. Sidney Lanfield · With Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Wendy Barrie
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
Dir. Pete Walker · With Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Cristina Raines, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam

as Dracula (aka Baron Latos)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish

as Dr. Bernardo
Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
Dir. Roy Ward Baker · With Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Dir. Henry King · With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
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

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Dir. John Ford · With Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Henry Fonda, Jackie Cooper, Gene Tierney
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With John Carradine, Onslow Stevens, Lon Chaney Jr.
In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.
Dir. Stewart Raffill · With Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts

In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson
A young girl witnesses the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, by mirror reflection. Years later, when the mirror is accidentally shattered, a dark and vengeful curse is unleashed on the family, and anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with its shards falls victim to heinous murder.
Dir. Ulli Lommel · With Suzanna Love, Ron James, John Carradine

"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
Dir. Ken Wiederhorn · With Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.
Dir. Theodore Gershuny · With Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov
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