We remember #CharlesLaughton (1899-1962), the great English film, stage and television actor, screenwriter, producer and director, born in Scarborough #OnThisDay. A force of nature at the Old Vic, on Broadway and in Hollywood, he made ten films with his wife Elsa Lanchester, including #TheBigClock (1948), two with Hitchcock and excelled in scene-stealing roles as Henry VIII, Captain Bligh, an unsurpassed pre-Code...

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2023: book twenty-three. #2023books #noxp #noir #thebigclock #fiction #bookstodon #kennethfearing #paperback