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Alan Marshal has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
Thriller · Mystery

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
Dir. William Castle · With Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · With William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Dir. William Dieterle · With Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
Dir. Alfred L. Werker · With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Dir. André de Toth · With Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise