Joseph Cotten Movie Rankings
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Newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, speaking a single word: "Rosebud". A reporter tries to piece together the puzzle of Kane's life by contacting old acquaintances and find the meaning of his dying word. ... more about Citizen Kane
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3.7191
Novelist Holly Martins goes to post-war Vienna on the invite of his friend, Harry Lime, who promises him a job. When Martins arrives, he discovers his friend is dead. Slowly Martins learns his friend was a thief, liar and murderer; and may still be alive. ... more about Third Man
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3.6888
An Alfred Hitchcock film about a girl named Charlie who feels her life is becoming very mundane. Her world becomes much more interesting when she receives a surprise visit from her favorite uncle of the same name. ... more about Shadow of a Doubt
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3.3504
The last documentary film by Orson Welles called “F for Fake” is about the trickery, fraud and lies of the famous art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer Clifford Irving, who also wrote a fake biography of Howard Hughes. ... more about F for Fake
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3.0388
In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack. ... more about Tora! Tora! Tora!
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3.0041
In the year 2022, earth's face has completely changed. New York's population, for example, has grown to 40 million mouths to feed. ... more about Soylent Green
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2.9887
The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. ... more about Magnificent Ambersons
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2.9334
The setting is the comfortable Connecticut home of a well-to-do family. Agnes is a determined, powerful woman who feels she must hold her husband together and present a brave face to the world. ... more about Delicate Balance
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2.9146
Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. ... more about Portrait of Jennie
Actor Awards
Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
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2.8958
Bette Davis plays Charlotte Hollis, a hermetic spinster haunted by memories of her murdered fiancé. Charlotte, whose only social contact is with her maid, Velma (Agnes Moorehead), is crushed to... Bette Davis plays Charlotte Hollis, a hermetic spinster haunted by memories of her murdered fiancé. ... more about Hush... Hush
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2.8850
Paula's aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body. Police fail to find the killer and Paula is sent away to school. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. ... more about Gaslight
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2.8831
When his wife dies on the operating table, the vengeful Dr. Phibes begins killing her doctors patterned after Biblical plagues. ... more about Abominable Dr. Phibes
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2.8135
San Francisco physician, Archie Bollen, is divorcing, sorting out new relationships with his ex, her new man, his sons, and friends who knew him as part of a couple. ... more about Petulia
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2.7711
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chevez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. ... more about Duel in the Sun
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2.7666
George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. ... more about Niagara
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2.7386
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. ... more about Under Capricorn
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2.6665
Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. ... more about Beyond the Forest
Not Available on DVD
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2.6323
A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. ... more about Journey Into Fear
Not Available on DVD
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2.5152
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. ... more about Killer Is Loose
Not Available on DVD
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2.5093
Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. ... more about Heaven's Gate
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2.3599
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotton) invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show it's potential he plans to send a rocket to the moon. ... more about From the Earth to the Moon
Not Available on DVD
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2.3287
Ginger Rogers is a convict released from state penitentiary for a Christmas leave. On the train, she meets Sergeant Joseph Cotton who has been released from a mental hospital and she invites him home for dinner. ... more about I'll Be Seeing You
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Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he's preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces over their life together, and Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top and the people he's stepped on (i.e. ... more about Oscar
Not Available on DVD
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2.0050
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War ... more about Twilight's Last Gleaming
Not Available on DVD
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2.0045
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. ... more about Love Letters
Not Available on DVD
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1.9551
Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with the same mystery symptoms that killed her father. ... more about Blueprint for Murder
Not Available on DVD
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1.9055
Swedish-American farmer's daughter Katrin 'Katie' Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first day, and she's forced to get a job... ... more about Farmer's Daughter
Not Available on DVD
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1.8546
A re-editing of _Gone to Earth (1950)_ (qv) after a disagreement and court case between director 'Michael Powell (I)' (qv) and producer 'David O. Selznick' (qv). Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. ... more about Wild Heart
Not Available on DVD
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1.7907
A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Claiming to have lived there as a boy, he soon ingratiates himself with the townspeople... ... more about Walk Softly
Not Available on DVD
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1.7806
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. ... more about Last Sunset
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1.7703
A luxury 747 carrying valuable art work is hijacked and lands in the ocean, submerged in shallow water. ... more about Airport '77
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1.5840
Reverend James Johnson, the priest of an independent church in Guyana in South America, orders his followers to suicide. But not all follow him blindly and begin to think on their own... ... more about Guyana: Crime of the Century
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1.5566
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. ... more about Baron Blood
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1.5475
Reporter Moses Brody investigates a big business conglomerate which wants to destroy plans for a new Concord passenger jet which will disrupt their South American passenger airlines business which leads to Brody being on a new Conford flight to London ... more about The Concorde Affair
Not Available on DVD
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1.5076
As a man returns home to see his dying father, the story of the alienation between father and son is told in flashback. ... more about Halliday Brand
Not Available on DVD
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1.4105
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. ... more about Something Waits in the Dark
Not Available on DVD
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1.3744
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. ... more about Since You Went Away
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0.6663
Jane Hardy decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce. Little does she know, her aunt practiced witchcraft and is still thought of very badly by the town's citizens. ... more about Hearse
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Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson)hiding in his garage. ... more about Bottom of the Bottle
Not Available on DVD
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A political extremist (John Gabriel, The Curse of the Werewolf), on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor in hopes of fleeing the country. ... more about Doomsday Voyage
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When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. ... more about Lady Frankenstein
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A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families. ... more about Syndicate Sadists
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Christine Adams, at 19, leaves her small town in British Columbia to follow her boy-friend to L.A., where he works for a bank, to live with him and have babies. ... more about Grasshopper
Not Available on DVD
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The protege of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault. ... more about Jack of Diamonds
Not Available on DVD
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In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims of his grandson. ... more about Man with a Cloak
Not Available on DVD
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An old American millionairess comes to Rome every year with her chaffeur to play a game of cards with a destitute ragman Peppino and his wife Antonia. She gives them the initial stakes and the game can begin. ... more about The Scopone Game
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
An industrialist (Joseph Cotton) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. ... more about September Affair
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
The Denbow family hope to freeze out homesteaders by denying access across their land; but to evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries the only witness, Jane, who's conveniently in love with him, but favors the settlers. ... more about Untamed Frontier
Not Available on DVD
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