Edward Everett Horton Archives

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 1, 2000Alice in Wonderland Adaptation

Studio adaptation that freely mixes elements from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and features an all-star cast line-up, this works far better than the purists would have it

Director: Norman McLeod

Actors: Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Charlotte Henry, Edward Everett Horton, …

Category: Fantasy

1 June 200015 February 2026 by Roog

Lost Horizon (1937)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 4, 2001Hidden Valley Paradise/The Secret of Longevity

Hugely successful and probably overrated classic from Frank Capra about the discovery of a lost valley in the Himalayas that offers the secret of immortality

Director: Frank Capra

Actors: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, H.B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton, …

Category: Fantasy

4 June 200128 June 2026 by Roog

Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 3, 2000Afterlife Mixup

One of the original Hollywood afterlife films of the 1940s light fantasy boom, twice remade, most notedly as Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait. Amiable and likeable while avoiding any deeper issues

Director: Alexander Hall

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, James Gleason, …

Category: Fantasy

3 February 200014 March 2026 by Roog

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 8, 1999Grand Guignol Comedy/Murderous Old Ladies

Blackly funny Frank Capra comedy adapted from a very popular Broadway play of the era in which Cary Grant discovers that his two old dear aunts have been killing off their boarders

Director: Frank Capra

Actors: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey, …

Category: Horror

8 July 199919 November 2025 by Roog

Down to Earth (1947)

Rating: ★★

Jan 23, 2001Greek Muse Comes Down to Earth

This was a semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr Jordan featuring Rita Hayworth as the goddess Terpsichore descended to Earth to inspire a Broadway producer

Director: Alexander Hall

Actors: Rita Hayworth, James Gleason, Roland Culver, Edward Everett Horton, …

Category: Fantasy

23 January 200124 May 2023 by Roog

The Story of Mankind (1957)

Rating: ★

Feb 18, 2010Heavenly Tribunal Judges Human History

Laughable Irwin Allen film that conducts a tour of human history via stock footage as Vincent Price's The Devil holds a heavenly tribunal to judge humanity for inventing the atomic bomb

Director: Irwin Allen

Actors: Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Groucho Marx, Cedric Hardwicke, …

Category: Fantasy

18 February 20106 March 2026 by Roog