Laughton

• “Like diners who know the waiter sees them, but despair of luring him back to their table, actors make vague gestures in Laughton's direction but don't seem to have any real hope of engaging him.”

  The Mannionville Daily Gazettes Favorite Blog of the Day: Favorite Film Blogger Anniversary Edition

• “O'HARA: And he could only remember -- and he called Laughton up and said, you're right.”

  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Maureen O'Hara Discusses Her Life in Film - October 28, 2000

• “Once upon a time there lived, at an old house in Hampshire called Laughton, a wealthy baronet named St. John.”

  Lucretia — Volume 04

• “Perhaps it was by chance that a variation on the medieval ferry-hailing term was used in these aqueous circumstances, but the dramatic hello attributed to Joe Laughton on September 18, 1827, is the first attestation of the word.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Other notables include the rotund Peter Ustinov providing comic relief as a cowardly slave-trader, and Charles Laughton, who lends gravitas as a senior Roman senator.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95!

• “A 1939 sound version, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara, is also very good.”

  The Huffington Post: Thomas Gladysz: Hunchback of Notre Dame at Grace Cathedral New Year's Eve

• “But this remains Laughton's movie, with Moreau's sadism providing a dry run for the actor's defining role as Captain Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty" 1935.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Horror, at Home

• “The story uses a familiar horror template: A lone man (a serviceable Richard Arlen) finds himself stranded on an uncharted island, where a brilliant but demented scientist, Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton, incomparable), reigns supreme.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Horror, at Home

• “Though Sternberg made films as late as the early 1950s, there were no more comebacks after an aborted attempt in 1937 to film Robert Graves's "I, Claudius," with Charles Laughton in the title role and Merle Oberon as Messalina.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Master of the Mise-en-Scène

• “MGM's adaptation of the famous Nordhoff/ Hall book is given top shelf treatment here, with the sneering Laughton the definitive Bligh, and the studio's biggest star, Gable, playing Christian with gusto and notably, without either a British accent or his trademark mustache.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood

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