Cecil Kellaway Archives

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 9, 2000Universal Invisible Man Sequel

The second of Universal's Invisible Man films with Vincent Price inheriting the title role. Not quite as sublimely droll as James Whale's original, this still has some amusing comic moment and good effects

Director: Joe May

Actors: Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, John Sutton, Nan Grey, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 December 20008 May 2023 by Roog

I Married a Witch (1942)

Rating: ★★★★

May 29, 2001Mischievous Witch in Love

Charming and delightful film starring Veronica Lake as a witch burned at the stake returned in the present to make life miserable for her judge's descendant Frederic March

Director: Rene Clair

Actors: Veronica Lake, Frederic March, Cecil Kellaway, Susan Hayward

Category: Fantasy

29 May 200127 October 2021 by Roog

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 13, 2000Supernatural Romance

Classic, exquisitely made weepie romantic fantasy about an artist obsessed with a woman who appears to travel through time

Director: William Dieterle

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore, David Wayne, …

Category: Fantasy

13 April 200010 May 2024 by Roog

The Luck of the Irish (1948)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 3, 2001Leprechaun

The first Hollywood film about leprechauns, although quite a different work than those that followed

Director: Henry Koster

Actors: Tyrone Power, Cecil Kellaway, Anne Baxter, Lee J. Cobb, …

Category: Fantasy

3 March 20012 January 2025 by Roog

Harvey (1950)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 9, 2000Invisible Companion

Wonderfully charming classic with James Stewart who has an invisible 6’3″ rabbit companion. The film proves absolutely winning with its standing up in favour of the right to be eccentric

Director: Henry Koster

Actors: James Stewart, Cecil Kellaway, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, …

Category: Fantasy

9 March 20002 January 2025 by Roog

Francis Goes to the Races (1951)

Rating: ★★

Aug 17, 2023Talking Mule Comedy

The second in a surprisingly popular series of comedies about a talking mule, this involves Francis in a series of hijinks set around horse racing track

Director: Arthur Lubin

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Chill Wills, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway, …

Category: Fantasy

17 August 202322 October 2025 by Roog

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Rating: ★★½

May 26, 1999Atomically-Revived Dinosaur

A classic of the genre for a number of reason - it was the film that kicked off the 1950s fad for atomic monsters, featuring an archetypal story about a dinosaur brought back to life by atomic tests. It also featured among the very first screen credits for both Ray Bradbury and stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen

Director: Eugene Lourie

Actors: Paul Christian, Cecil Kellaway, Paula Raymond, Kenneth Tobey, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 May 199928 June 2022 by Roog

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Rating: ★★

Mar 7, 2005Teenager Transforms Into a Dog/Disney Comedy

The first of Disney's live-action comedies, a comic variant on the werewolf story with Tommy Kirk turning into a dog. Mildly amusing but later efforts would do this type of comedy better

Director: Charles Barton

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Cecil Kellaway, …

Category: Fantasy

7 March 200513 March 2025 by Roog

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 12, 2003Southern Gothic Psycho-Thriller

Robert Aldrich's successor to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with a return performance from Bette Davis who is on the receiving end this time. This is arguably a superior film, bringing in a tightly contorted psycho-thriller plot and adding a decaying South setting

Director: Robert Aldrich

Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, …

Category: Horror

12 April 200313 December 2024 by Roog