With his silver-toned voice, matinee-idol good looks, and air of brooding mystery, James Mason could play the dashing antihero better than anyone, exuding a dark, troubled sophistication that made him a star in both Britain and Hollywood. He puts his dangerous charm to good use as an ignoble highwayman who embarks on a torrid affair with Margaret Lockwood’s scheming aristocrat in the deliciously lurid pulp melodrama THE WICKED LADY. Then he plays a doomed ship’s captain opposite a breathtaking Ava Gardner in the dreamlike romantic fantasy PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, a deliriously stylized slice of Technicolor surrealism stunningly shot by the great Jack Cardiff.