List of the best William Cameron Menzies movies: Address Unknown(1944), The Green Cockatoo(1937), Things to Come(1936), Invaders From Mars(1953), Chandu, the Magician(1932), The Whip Hand(1951), Drums in the Deep South(1951), The Maze(1954) ... ...
Drama
USA
1944
80 Minutes
Director
Paul Lukas K.T. Stevens Carl Esmond Mady Christians Morris Carnovsky Peter Van Eyck
art dealer partner daughter actress nazi son emotional tense germany san francisco art gallery betrayal nazism anti-semitism ambition family fall revenge transformation 1930s
US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
65 Minutes
Director
John Mills Rene Ray Robert Newton Charles Oliver Bruce Seton Julian Vedey Allan Jeayes Frank Atkinson
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Sci-Fi
UK
1936
95 Minutes
Director
Raymond Massey Ralph Richardson Margueretta Scott Cedric Hardwicke Maurice Braddell Edward Chapman Ann Todd
businessman doctor war lord daughter pilot sculptor intricate campy creative outlandish city everytown nuclear weapons technology war dystopia fall rise transformation future
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.
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
73 Minutes
Director
Helena Carter Arthur Franz Jimmy Hunt Morris Ankrum Leif Erickson Hillary Brooke Max Wagner Milburn Stone Walter Sande Janine Perreau John Eldredge
young boy astronomer doctor alien father police officer suspenseful campy house woods small town office alien invasion family science escape mystery 1950s
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Sci-Fi
USA
1932
74 Minutes
Director
Edmund Lowe Bela Lugosi Irene Ware Herbert Mundin Henry B. Walthall Weldon Heyburn Virginia Hammond June Lang Nestor Aber
magician madman inventor sister princess daughter campy spectacular india monastery slave market lair household united states death ray kidnapping good versus evil hypnosis teleportation inventions
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Sci-Fi
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Director
Carla Balenda Elliott Reid Raymond Burr Edgar Barrier Otto Waldis Michael Steele Lurene Tuttle Peter Brocco
journalist old man store owner scientist doctor townsperson campy melodramatic patriotic suspenseful moscow soviet union wisconsin lake small town lodge communism espionage cold war biological warfare
Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it,... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Director
James Craig Barbara Payton Guy Madison Barton MacLane Craig Stevens Tom Fadden Robert Osterloh Taylor Holmes Robert Easton Lewis Martin Peter Brocco
southern belle military officer soldier husband best friend major melodramatic thrilling suspenseful georgia plantation mountain railway american civil war friendship betrayal doomed romance espionage military occupation rivalry
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Horror
1954
81 Minutes
Director
Richard Carlson Veronica Hurst Katherine Emery Michael Pate John Dodsworth Hillary Brooke Stanley Fraser Lilian Bond Owen McGiveney Robin Hughes Clyde Cook
A bride (Veronica Hurst) and her aunt (Katherine Emery) chase the bridegroom (Richard Carlson) to his Scottish castle, home of a man-frog.