Circle of Iron

1978

English

5.7

♡ 13

43%

Richard Moore Director

Eli Wallach as Man-in-Oil

Anthony De Longis as Morthond

Roddy McDowall as White Robe

Christopher Lee as Zetan

In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.

Lassie Come Home

1943

English

7.1

♡ 10

94%

human animal relationship

scotland

yorkshire

Fred M. Wilcox Director

Ben Webster as Dan'l Fadden

Nigel Bruce as Duke of Rudling

Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough

Edmund Gwenn as Rowlie

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.

Lord Love a Duck

1966

English

6.3

♡ 2

70%

George Axelrod Director

Roddy McDowall as Alan Musgrave

Tuesday Weld as Barbara Ann Greene

John Roy as Security Guard

Robert Foulk as Uniformed Police Sgt.

From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.

Inside Daisy Clover

1965

English

6.1

♡ 8

31%

marriage of convenience

Robert Mulligan Director

Merv Griffin as Radio Announcer

Myrna Loy as Self

Robert Redford as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade

Roddy McDowall as Walter Baines

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

Man Hunt

1941

English

7.2

♡ 8

87%

Fritz Lang Director

Joan Bennett as Jerry Stokes

Lester Matthews as Major

William Haade as Third Sentry

Roddy McDowall as Vaner

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

Nutcracker Fantasy

1979

Japanese

6.8

♡ 4

75%

Takeo Nakamura Director

Roddy McDowall as Franz / Fritz

Haruko Kitahama as Gypsy Fortuneteller

Joan Gerber as Mice Voices

Jo Anne Worley as Queen Morphia

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a stop-motion animated film.

Shakma

1990

English

5.0

♡ 12

42%

Tom Logan Director

Ari Meyers as Kim

Christopher Atkins as Sam

Roddy McDowall as Sorenson

Amanda Wyss as Tracy

A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.

Hello Down There

1969

English

5.6

♡ 4

59%

Jack Arnold Director

Tony Randall as Fred Miller

Richard Dreyfuss as Harold Webster

Merv Griffin as Himself

Roddy McDowall as Nate Ashbury

Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

2019

English

7.7

♡ 2

86%

William Conlin Director

Guillermo del Toro as Self

Joe Dante as Self

Roddy McDowall as Self

Greg Nicotero as Self

Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on making the iconic film.

Dead of Winter

1987

English

6.2

♡ 14

Arthur Penn Director

Roddy McDowall as Mr. Murray

Wayne Robson as Officer Huntley

William Russ as Rob Sweeney

Mark Malone as Roland McGovern

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

English

7.1

♡ 39

66%

live action and animation

Robert Stevenson Director

Sam Jaffe as Bookman

John Ericson as Col. Heller

Roddy McDowall as Mr. Jelk

Hank Worden as Old Home Guardsman

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Macbeth

1948

English

7.4

♡ 10

86%

Orson Welles Director

Edgar Barrier as Banquo

Lurene Tuttle as Gentlewoman / The Three

Keene Curtis as Lennox

Roddy McDowall as Malcolm

A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.

Midnight Son

2011

English

5.8

♡ 2

95%

Scott Leberecht Director

Stephen Geoffreys as Evil Ed

Tracey Walter as Janitor

Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent

Arlen Escarpeta as Russell

MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.

Arnold

1973

English

5.9

♡ 2

61%

Georg Fenady Director

Bernard Fox as Constable Hooke

Jamie Farr as Dybbi

Elsa Lanchester as Hester

Roddy McDowall as Robert

Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.

Cricket on the Hearth

1967

English

5.5

♡ 7

30%

live action and animation

Musical

toy maker

toymaker

Jules Bass Director

Marlo Thomas as Bertha

Roddy McDowall as Cricket Crocket

Abbe Lane as Moll

Danny Thomas as Self / Caleb

A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness.

Unlikely Angel

1996

English

6.3

♡ 7

68%

Michael Switzer Director

Maria del Mar as Allison

Terrie Snell as Church Lady

Roddy McDowall as Saint Peter

Allison Mack as Sarah Bartilson

A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth.

The Grass Harp

1995

English

6.7

♡ 8

50%

93%

Action

based on novel or book

Charles Matthau Director

Roddy McDowall as Amos Legrand

Nell Carter as Catherine Creek

Mia Kirshner as Maude Riordan

Joe Don Baker as Sheriff Junius Candle

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

1974

English

6.6

♡ 15

44%

John Hough Director

Adam Roarke as Deke

Kenneth Tobey as Donahue

Roddy McDowall as George Stanton

Craig Kelly as Trooper

Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

2024

English

7.4

♡ 4

97%

Nanette Burstein Director

Elizabeth Taylor as (archive sound)

Roddy McDowall as (archive sound)

George Hamilton as (archive sound)

Montgomery Clift as Self - Actor

Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971

English

6.3

♡ 53

75%

Don Taylor Director

John Randolph as Chairman

Roddy McDowall as Cornelius

Albert Salmi as E-1

Jason Evers as E-2

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

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Circle of Iron

Lassie Come Home

Lord Love a Duck

Inside Daisy Clover

Man Hunt

Nutcracker Fantasy

Shakma

Hello Down There

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

Dead of Winter

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Macbeth

Midnight Son

Arnold

Cricket on the Hearth

Unlikely Angel

The Grass Harp

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes