James Stewart Archives

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 21, 2003Angel Presents an Alternate Life Pathway

Sentimental Frank Capra film that had become a Christmas classic where an angel shows depressed everyman James Stewart the alternate world that would happen if he had never been born

Director: Frank Capra

Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, …

Category: Fantasy

21 November 200328 November 2025 by Roog

Rope (1948)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 1, 2003Psycho-Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock conducts an experiment in shooting a film in only eight takes. Based on the true-life Leopold-Lowe case where two gay students murdered a child as an exercise in moral superiority.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke

Category: Horror

1 April 200317 October 2023 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

Vertigo (1958)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 11, 2003Reincarnation Thriller

Considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films, this is a study in obsession and features a reincarnation plot. What works more so than the contrived plot twists is Hitchcock’s expert direction, all thunderously brooding mood and lush Technicolor dreaminess

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

Category: Fantasy

11 September 20032 June 2025 by Roog

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 13, 2000Witch in Love

Charming fantasy in which James Stewart is tempted by capricious witch Kim Novak. This almost certainly served as the inspiration for tv's Bewitched

Director: Richard Quine

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester, …

Category: Fantasy

13 December 20009 November 2019 by Roog

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 1, 2000Animation/Talking Mice Adventures

Amblin make a sequel to An American Tail minus the involvement of Don Bluth this time. The story now becomes an amiable animated parody of a Western

Director: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells

Actors: Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise, John Cleese, James Stewart, …

Category: Fantasy

1 August 200018 November 2025 by Roog