Production Company(ies)
Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique Films,
 
Distributor
DCA Releasing
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Bouches-du-Rhône, France
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1955
 

 
Genre(s)
Mystery & Thriller
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

Yves Montand

Mario

Charles Vanel

Jo

Peter van Eyck

Mario

Jo

Bimba

Linda

Luigi

Yves Montand – Mario
Charles Vanel – Jo
Peter van Eyck – Bimba
Véra Clouzot – Linda
Folco Lulli – Luigi
William Tubbs – Bill O’Brien

 

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Raymond Borderie

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Louis Wipf

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
 
Writer(s)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Arnaud, Jérôme Géronimi
 
Producer(s)
Raymond Borderie, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Louis Wipf

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award
6 wins total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Dave Kehr

Joshua Rothkopf

Budd Wilkins

Eric Henderson

Patrick Peters

Chicago Tribune

Time Out

Slant Magazine

Empire Magazine

Chicago Reader

THE WAGES OF FEAR
  All Critics (47) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (47)
  Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger.
 
  April 1, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  Hitch’s bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.
 
  December 6, 2011 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Joshua Rothkopf
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  The Wages of Fear contains tension-fraught stretches of “pure cinema” that probably gave even the Master cold sweats.
 
  December 6, 2011 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Budd Wilkins
  Slant Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fuelled thrill ride since.
 
  April 20, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Eric Henderson
  Slant Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  A nail-biting drama that’s a must-see.
 
  March 1, 2007 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Patrick Peters
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  A significant influence on Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.
 
  March 1, 2007
 
  Jonathan Rosenbaum
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Clouzot makes the most of the suspense inherent in such a tale, you can be sure, but his attitude is hopeless from the start and a sense of doom hangs over the film from the very beginning, long before the terrible end.
 
  June 7, 2022
 
  Herman G. Weinberg
  Film Culture
  The brutal narrative cynicism and political commentary in The Wages of Fear indicate the unflinching nature of its maker.
 
  March 21, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  …the greatest thriller to ever turn a moviegoer’s knuckles white.
 
  August 10, 2020
 
  Chris Barsanti
  Eyes Wide Open
  The Wages of Fear will keep you tipped forward on the edge of your seat, your palms sweaty and your heart thumping wildly.
 
  July 16, 2019
 
  Hoshi Soffen
  Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News
  A masterpiece of cruel suspense.
 
  May 31, 2018
 
  Richard von Busack
  MetroActive
  The actual driving scenes are full of suspense and bit of humour. You can tell Clouzot has fun putting the viewer in a false sense of security.
 
  March 15, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Stephan Boissonneault
  Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)…

 

Plot
In the Central American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions,
 
Distributor
RKO Radio Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Busch Gardens – S. Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1941
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, directed by Orson Welles, written by Herman J Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Ida Belle Hicks, Marjory Adams, Whitney Bolton, Bob Fredericks, T.C Kemp, Reg Whitley, Brian Eggert, Michael Clark, Michael J Casey, Josephine O’Neill, PG, Charles Foster Kane, newspaper magnate, rise and fall, Jedediah Leland, Susan Alexander, mystery, “Rosebud”, RKO Radio Pictures, Academy (1.33:1), mono, landmark achievement, storytelling, publishing tycoon, investigation, complex man, fragments of light, elusive man, final word, fascinating portrait, staggering heights, poignant, inventive, entertaining, Orson Welles’s epic tale
 

Cast & Crew

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane

Joseph Cotten

Jedediah Leland

Newsreel Reporter

Charles Foster Kane

Jedediah Leland

Newsreel Reporter

Emily Norton Kane

Bernstein

Orson Welles – Charles Foster Kane
Joseph Cotten – Jedediah Leland, Newsreel Reporter
Ruth Warrick – Emily Norton Kane
Everett Sloane – Bernstein
Agnes Moorehead – Mrs. Mary Kane
Dorothy Comingore – Susan Alexander

 

Orson Welles

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Orson Welles

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Orson Welles
 
Writer(s)
Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman
 
Producer(s)
Orson Welles

 

Film Festivals
Berlin, Cannes
 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
11 wins & 13 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Ida Belle Hicks

Marjory Adams

Guardian Staff

Whitney Bolton

Colvin McPherson

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Boston Globe

Guardian

Philadelphia Inquirer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CITIZEN KANE
  All Critics (125) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (1)
  We aren’t going to quibble about the genius business. Time will take care of that and if Welles goes down in history as one well be happy to have been among those who enjoyed the results of his great talent.
 
  March 2, 2021
 
  Ida Belle Hicks
  Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
  TOP CRITIC
  The sheer brilliance and audacity of Citizen Kane… make the film the most astounding cinematic achievement of the season. It ranks with Disney’s Fantasia as a milestone in motion picture technique.
 
  March 2, 2021
 
  Marjory Adams
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  Ordinary standards will not serve for Citizen Kane; extravagance of idea for serious ends is not common enough in the cinema to provide a yardstick.
 
  March 2, 2021
 
  Guardian Staff
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  [It] is my opinion that Mr. Welles has been sympathetic and kind. He reveals great respect for people, and a knowledge of their powers and talents.
 
  March 2, 2021
 
  Whitney Bolton
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  This first screen effort of Orson Welles is of such vast difference to other pictures, in subject material, in treatment, in technique, in cast and in performance that the best advice perhaps is, “See what you think.”
 
  March 2, 2021
 
  Colvin McPherson
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  TOP CRITIC
  I would say it is a great picture but… It is one of those things, like the Pyramids, which are impressive and definitely interesting to have seen, but one can have more fun than looking at the Pyramids.
 
  March 2, 2021
 
  Bob Fredericks
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Orson Welles, who plays Kane, produces and directs, has driven to the heart of his subject with a fierce, thrusting energy that is rare and refreshing.
 
  February 17, 2022
 
  T.C. Kemp
  Birmingham Post
  A distinctly out-of-the-rut production and a great piece of cinema artistry.
 
  February 17, 2022
 
  Reg Whitley
  Daily Mirror (UK)
  Perhaps the film’s most resonant quality is that, through the film’s story and production, Welles inspires the same investigative process about himself and his picture.
 
  February 14, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  “Citizen Kane” forever changed the way movies were made and interpreted. It’s still relevant and unique 80 years after its release. Is it the greatest movie ever? Maybe, maybe not. The most influential? Without a doubt, yes.
 
  January 9, 2022 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Michael Clark
  Epoch Times
  I can’t think of an American-made film that stands up to multiple viewings quite like ‘Kane’…it never feels like Welles and company are showing off, just showing what a movie can do.
 
  December 2, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Michael J. Casey
  Boulder Weekly
  Welles is the most exciting thing that’s happened since sound.
 
  June 10, 2021
 
  Josephine O’Neill
  Daily Telegraph (Australia)…

 

Plot
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: “Rosebud.” The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane’s life for the masses, and then from there, viewers are shown flashbacks from Kane’s life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man’s rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Orson Welles wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Citizen Kane at just 24 and a half years old.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Nero-Film AG,
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Staaken, Spandau, Berlin, Germany
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1931
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama/Crime
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

Peter Lorre

Ellen Widmann

Inge Landgut

Otto Wernicke

Gustaf Gründgens

Hans Beckert

Madame Beckmann

Elsie Beckmann

Insp. Karl Lohmann

Schränker

Peter Lorre – Hans Beckert
Ellen Widmann – Madame Beckmann
Inge Landgut – Elsie Beckmann
Otto Wernicke – Insp. Karl Lohmann
Gustaf Gründgens – Schränker
Theodor Loos – Police Commissioner Groeber

 

Fritz Lang

Egon Jacobson

Seymour Nebenzal

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Fritz Lang
 
Writer(s)
Egon Jacobson, Fritz Lang
 
Producer(s)
Seymour Nebenzal

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Bruce Blevin

Kevin Maher

Carrie Rickey

Pauline Kael

Mark Kermode

The New Republic

Times (UK)

Philadelphia Inquirer

New Yorker

Observer (UK)

M
  All Critics (61) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (61)
  Not only is the film brilliantly directed, with a vast amount of that inspired type-casting at which the Germans are so good, but Peter Lorre acts the part of the insane murderer with great insight and inspired skill.
 
  February 18, 2022
 
  Bruce Blevin
  The New Republic
  TOP CRITIC
  Be afraid. Be properly afraid. The greatest creation of Fritz Lang’s career remains one of the most disturbing movies of his, or any, film-making era.
 
  June 30, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Kevin Maher
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Lang’s movie is that rare thing, a nail-biting soul-searcher. While M steers clear of analyzing deviance, it is startling in its musings on which punishment fits an inhuman crime.
 
  May 2, 2016 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Carrie Rickey
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  Our identification with [Lorre] as a psychopath is so complete it’s hard to believe that while appearing before Fritz Lang’s cameras in the daytime, he was, at night, acting as a comedian in a farce.
 
  April 7, 2016
 
  Pauline Kael
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  Lang’s razor-sharp dissection of crime and punishment never puts a foot wrong.
 
  September 7, 2014 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Mark Kermode
  Observer (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  It is a cousin to the early Hitchcock of The Lodger, and I have always found something even something faintly Ealingesque about its cynicism and satire.
 
  September 4, 2014 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  Lang’s film, although deeply unpleasant, is one that deserves to be seen and talked about. [Full review in Spanish]
 
  May 14, 2021
 
  Miguel de Zárraga
  Cine-Mundial
  There are many strong performances in the film but it is Peter Lorre’s movie.
 
  March 24, 2021
 
  Sarah Brinks
  Battleship Pretension
  Technically, It is presented with the objective conviction of a news reel. It is a horrible and as convincing as if a cameraman had been witness to the Leopold and Loeb murder, for example. The story moves with breath-taking, ominous suspense.
 
  August 1, 2020
 
  Eagle Staff
  Brooklyn Daily Eagle
  Famously, Lang uses lights and shadows to designate a film noir atmosphere to pair with his German Expressionism topics.
 
  July 27, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  [This] is a film that hasn’t aged a day, and that is actually more innovative than most films currently playing.
 
  July 1, 2020
 
  CJ Sheu
  Review Film Review
  Beautifully constructed, mounting from climax to climax with terrific suspense. Flawless performances, and social meaning.
 
  April 21, 2020
 
  Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
  Esquire Magazine…

 

Plot
There have been a rash of child abductions and murders in Berlin. The murderer lures the children into his confidence by candy and other such child friendly items. Everyone is on edge because the murderer has not been caught. The most substantial pieces of evidence the police have are hand written letters by the murderer which he sent to the newspaper for publication. Unknown even to himself, a blind beggar, who sold the murderer a balloon for one of the child victims, may have key information as to the murderer’s identity. The murder squad’s work is made even more difficult with the large number of tips they receive from the paranoid public, who are quick to accuse anyone of suspicious activity solely for their own piece of mind that someone – anyone – is apprehended for the heinous crimes. Conversely, many want to take the case into their own hands, including the town’s leading criminals since the increased police presence has placed a strain on their ability to conduct criminal activity. Although they both have the same end goal of capturing the murderer, the police and the criminals seem to be working at cross purposes, which may provide an edge to the murderer in getting away.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)

 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate

 
Year of Release
1921
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Granville Redmond, May White, directed by Charlie Chaplin, written by Charlie Chaplin, produced by Charlie Chaplin, comedy, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Grace Kingsley, Mabel McElliott, Times (UK) Staff, Age Staff, Nick Dawson, Harry Carr, Carl Sandburg, Robert E Sherwood, John McDonald, Graeme Tuckett, directed by Charlie Chaplin, produced by Charlie Chaplin, MPAA rating, The Tramp, The Kid, The Woman, The Man, The Man’s Friend, Edna’s Maid, silent film, slapstick, orphan, adoption, fatherhood, poverty, childhood, heartwarming, emotional, classic, masterpiece, iconic, black and white, original score, Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature, little tramp, little orphan, melodramatic, fun, humanly played, Artful Dodger, Bowery bum, tender, literary charm, child performance, breakthrough, influential, warm comedy, personal progression, artistic ambition, emotionally heart-wrenching, child roles, slapstick comedy, political, real life issues, funny, touching, sweet, dream sequence
 

Cast & Crew

Charlie Chaplin

Jackie Coogan

Edna Purviance

Carl Miller

Granville Redmond

A Tramp

The Kid

The Woman

The Man

The Man’s Friend (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin – A Tramp
Jackie Coogan – The Kid
Edna Purviance – The Woman
Carl Miller – The Man
Granville Redmond – The Man’s Friend (uncredited)
May White – Edna’s Maid (uncredited)

 

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Charlie Chaplin
 
Writer(s)
Charlie Chaplin
 
Producer(s)
Charlie Chaplin

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Grace Kingsley

Mabel McElliott

Times (UK) Staff

Age Staff

Nick Dawson

Los Angeles Times

New York Daily News

Times (UK)

The Age (Australia)

Empire Magazine

THE KID
  All Critics (50) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (50)
  There’s really no classifying The Kid. The best one can do is say that it has all the old melodramatic material, but so jazzed up with fun and with its drama so simply and humanly played, that it almost fools you into believing it is like life.
 
  June 25, 2021
 
  Grace Kingsley
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Jackie, legging it madly ‘cross corners, is almost as good for box office purposes as our own Charles, playing the Artful Dodger to a Bowery bum.
 
  May 17, 2021
 
  Mabel McElliott
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  Formerly it was the custom to say that Mr. Chaplin played down to the level of his audiences. Now it is to be hoped that he will lift his audiences up to this new level of his own.
 
  August 5, 2020
 
  Times (UK) Staff
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  The story is only of the average order… [but] the quality of the film lies in the joyous fooling of Chaplin and the Kid.
 
  August 5, 2020
 
  Age Staff
  The Age (Australia)
  TOP CRITIC
  Chaplin is, of course, hilarious, but it’s Coogan’s cherubic charm that makes this so special.
 
  August 5, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Nick Dawson
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  To my mind The Kid is by long odds the best motion picture comedy ever made. It has more than humor; it has tenderness and literary charm. Incidentally it is the first child picture I ever saw that did not give me an acute pain to the bowels.
 
  March 24, 2019
 
  Harry Carr
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Those constant contenders who maintain that Charlie Chaplin is the master mummer of the movies and the world’s greatest actor, either in the silent or the spoken drama, now have another exhibit to put forward in behalf of their argument.
 
  March 28, 2022
 
  Carl Sandburg
  Chicago Daily News
  Chaplin, as always, demonstrates the marvelous quality which, in the cinema world, is so exclusively his own — the ability to be coarse without being offensive; to mix Rabelaisian wit with Chesterfieldian delicacy.
 
  October 4, 2021
 
  Robert E. Sherwood
  LIFE
  The Kid was a breakthrough for Chaplin and for the industry in the way it combined slapstick comedy with the kind of drama that touched viewers’ hearts.
 
  August 1, 2021
 
  John McDonald
  Australian Financial Review
  The Kid is a groundbreaking and immensely influential piece of work which still delivers laughs and astonishments today.
 
  July 13, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Graeme Tuckett
  Stuff.co.nz
  There are always critics out there instructing their readers to watch classic Hollywood features because of their significance or historical relevance. With The Kid you should honestly watch it because it’s an incredibly funny and warm comedy.
 
  January 21, 2021 | Rating: 10/10
 
  Grant Watson
  Fiction Machine
  Every single one of Chaplin’s features is a classic, but The Kid is his first, and one of his greatest in terms of personal progression and artistic ambition — plus, one of the most emotionally heart-wrenching child performances ever put to celluloid.
 
  October 20, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Jordan M. Smith
  IONCINEMA.com…

 

Plot
In Charlie Chaplin’s “The Kid,” a little tramp takes in a little orphan and raises him, but is heartbroken when the orphanage takes him back.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Kid stars Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp and Jackie Coogan as The Kid.
 

 
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