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Raymond Massey has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Dir. Frank Capra · With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
Dir. Michael Powell · With Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Dir. King Vidor · With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
Dir. James Whale · With Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton

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