Raymond Massey Archives

The Old Dark House (1932)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 30, 2005Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

A classic Old Dark House thriller from director James Whale, a droll comedy of wonderfully stylised Gothic mood and featuring a near-perfectly cast line-up of eccentrics creeping about

Director: James Whale

Actors: Ernest Thesiger, Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, …

Category: Horror

30 January 20059 April 2026 by Roog

Things to Come (1936)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 9, 2003Building a Scientific Utopia

From a script by H.G. Wells, this comes with a visionary sweep that depicts the building of a scientific utopia but equally suffers from dull and heavy-handed polemical dialogue

Director: William Cameron Menzies

Actors: Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 October 20035 September 2021 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

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 3, 2007The Afterlife

British director Michael Powell creates the most visually stunning of all 1940s afterlife fantasies in lush Technicolor, depicting a heaven of dazzling architectural marvels

Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Actors: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey, …

Category: Fantasy

3 November 200729 June 2021 by Roog