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Age of Consent (Country: Australia; Director: Michael Powell; Writer: Norman Lindsay, Peter Yeldham; Cast: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glynn, Andonia Katsaros, Michael Boddy, Harold Hopkins, Slim DeGrey, Max Meldrum, Frank Thring, Clarissa Kaye-Mason)
A riff on Shakespeare's Tempest explores an ageing artist's relationship with a young girl who comes to serve as his muse.

Bigger Than Life (Country: US; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Gavin Lambert, James Mason, Clifford Odets, Nicholas Ray, based on an article by Burton Roueche; Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Christopher Olsen, Robert F Simon, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stephens, Kipp Hamilton)
Addiction to a wonder drug has mind-altering side-effects. Full Review

Cross Of Iron (Country: UK, West Germany; Director: Sam Peckinpah; Writer: Julius J Epstein, James Hamilton, Willi Heinrich, Walter Kelley; Cast: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz, Dieter Schidor, Burkhard Driest, Fred Stillkrauth)
Things take a turn for the worse for German troops on the Russian border with the arrival of a glory-hunting but cowardly captain. Full Review

North By Northwest (Country: US; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ernest Lehman; Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt)
A case of mistaken identity and false accusation sees an innocent man go on the run from the CIA and a criminal gang. Full Review

Odd Man Out (Country: UK; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff, from the novel by F.L. Green; Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan, F.J. McCormick, William Hartnell, Fay Compton, Denis O'Dea, W.G. Fay, Maureen Delaney, Eleyn Brook-Jones, Robert Beatty, Dan O'Herlihy, Kitty Kirwan, Beryl Measor, Roy Irving, Joseph Tomelty, Arthur)
An injured IRA man goes on the run in the forbidding back streets of Belfast. Full Review

A Star Is Born (Country: USA; Director: George Cukor; Writer: Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson; Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Lucy Marlow, Amanda Blake, Irving Bacon, Hazel Shermet, Gloria Lewin)
Incisive look at Hollywood through the relationship of a man whose career hits the skids just as his wife's is beginning to flourish.

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