Collections/December 2021

Starring Joseph Cotten

When Orson Welles took Hollywood by storm in the early 1940s, he brought with him several members of his celebrated Mercury Theatre company—including the distinguished, mellifluous-voiced Joseph Cotten, who would go on to star in some of the greatest films of the decade under some of the era’s foremost directors. To classics like Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons , Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (in which the actor offers an unforgettably unnerving portrayal of evil incarnate), and George Cukor’s Gaslight , Cotten brought both a moody sensitivity and an intriguingly cynical edge that lent depth and nuance to each of his delicately shaded performances.

5 films — 0 on the Channel, 5 unavailable