James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

TV Movie
1984
38m

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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984)

Retrospective of the life and work of actor James Mason.Retrospective of the life and work of actor James Mason.Retrospective of the life and work of actor James Mason.

Director
- Mike Healey
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7.1/10

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Director
- Mike Healey
Stars

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James Mason

Self

Shelley Rohde

Self - Interviewer

Margaret Lockwood

Barbara
(archive footage)

Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Sullivan
(archive footage)

Anne Bancroft

Jo Armitage
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Alan Bridges

Self - on the set 'The Shooting Party'
(uncredited)

Red Buttons

Self - 'Lolita' premiere
(uncredited)

Joan Fontaine

Self
(uncredited)

Edward Fox

Lord Gilbert Hartlip
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Judy Garland

Vicki Lester
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

John Gielgud

Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party'
(uncredited)

Robert Hardy

Lord Bob Lilburn
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Christiane Kubrick

Self - 'Lolita' premiere
(uncredited)

Stanley Kubrick

Self - 'Lolita' premiere
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Herbert Lom

Dr. Larsen
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Sue Lyon

Self - 'Lolita' premiere
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Pamela Mason

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Hugh O'Brian

Self - 'Lolita' premiere
(uncredited)

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persistenceofvision

This solid documentary short's title refers to Mason's evil-but-sexy persona of the 1940s, in movies like The Seventh Veil and The Wicked Lady. The man himself, in interview footage shot just before his death, is courteous and mild-mannered in the extreme, tearing up at memories of A Star is Born's climax. With so much ground to cover, the film pretty much ignores all his movies after 1970, but if that means no footage of Bloodline or Yellowbeard, that's possibly a blessing.