By Vlad Zakh · September 3, 2026
C. Montague Shaw was a prolific Australian-born Hollywood character actor best known for authoritative roles in 1930s and 40s serials and adventure pictures. Planet Outlaws wakes Buck Rogers centuries in the future, Tonight and Every Night keeps a London theatre troupe performing through the Blitz, Two in the Dark fears an amnesiac may have committed murder, and Sharad of Atlantis finds the lost city. Journal of a Crime and Blondie of the Follies round out the list.
01 C. Montague Shaw features in this sci-fi serial edit where Buck Rogers awakens centuries in the future to battle a tyrannical warlord threatening Earth's freedom.
Directed by Saul A. Goodkind & Ford Beebe · 1h 11m · Rated NR
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Stream: Artiflix
Stream: FlixFling, Artiflix · Rent or buy: FlixFling
Stream: Artiflix
Stream: Artiflix
02 C. Montague Shaw appears in this Rita Hayworth musical about a London theatre troupe that vows to keep performing every single night, even through the terror of the Blitz.
Directed by Victor Saville · 1h 32m · Rated NR
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Stream: FlixFling · Rent or buy: FlixFling
03 C. Montague Shaw appears in this thriller about an amnesiac man who fears he may be responsible for a murder he can't remember committing.
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff · 1h 14m · Rated NR
04 C. Montague Shaw features in this serial about an American adventurer who discovers the lost city of Atlantis and its ruthless ruler plotting world domination.
Directed by B. Reeves Eason & Joseph Kane · 3h 46m · Rated NR
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Rent or buy: Amazon Video
05 C. Montague Shaw is in this drama about a jealous wife whose murder of her husband's mistress haunts her as she's forced to care for the woman's orphaned child.
Directed by William Keighley · 1h 05m
06 C. Montague Shaw features in this drama about a Ziegfeld Follies girl whose friendship with a wealthy socialite is tested when they fall for the same man.
Directed by Edmund Goulding · 1h 31m · Rated NR
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Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
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