James Mason – Stream On Demand

Luc Merenda and James Mason star in Fernando di Leo's mob revenge thriller

‘Kidnap Syndicate’ – The business of crime on Criterion Channel

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Fernando di Leo’s 1975 Italian crime thriller reworks the premise of Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ as a brutal portrait of class, power, and vengeance.

Ava Gardner and James Mason star in the ravishing romantic drama from Albert Lewin

‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ – James Mason and Ava Gardner on MUBI

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Albert Lewin directs this lush romantic fantasy set amongst the lost generation of idle wealthy Europeans in early thirties Spain.

Leaving soon: ‘Caught’ – Cinderella noir on Criterion Channel

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Melodrama and social commentary meet film noir in this drama of romance, wealth, and power from Max Ophuls, starring James Mason (in his American film debut), Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan.

James Mason in ‘5 Fingers’ on Criterion Channel

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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz spins a true story from World War II into a smart, ironic drama of spies and espionage.

‘North by Northwest’ – Alfred Hitchcock at his breeziest on HBO Max

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Cary Grant goes on a cross-country romp with Eva Marie Saint and James Mason in Hitchcock’s breeziest romantic thriller.

Margaret Lockwood is 'The Wicked Lady' in the gleefully excessive Gothic-pulp 1945 melodrama from British studio Gainsborough.

The original ‘The Wicked Lady’ on VOD

!Featured, Classic Movie, Have You Seen...?, VOD 03/20/2016 Sean Axmaker

Wicked is the operative term in The Wicked Lady (1945), an outsized, overwrought, gleefully excessive Gothic-pulp melodrama and the famous and most successful film made by the British studio Gainsborough. Margaret Lockwood takes title billing as the dark-hearted friend to the very model of generosity (played by Patricia Roc) and she begins the film by […]