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Reginald Gardiner has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1960s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Great Dictator.
The Lady Eve
1941
Comedy · Romance
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
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Dir. Peter Godfrey · With Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
Dir. A. Edward Sutherland · With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker
