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Alan Napier has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Marnie.
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Dragonwyck
1946
Drama · Romance

Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Drama · Thriller

The Wolf Man
1941
Horror · Drama

The Spiral Staircase
1946
Horror · Mystery

The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
Horror · Science Fiction

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Drama · Horror

Half Light
2006
Thriller · Horror

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959
Mystery · Thriller

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Dir. Henry Levin · With James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Pat Boone

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney

A pair of siblings from London [Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey] purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, England. Only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price, and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. Rich in atmosphere, The Uninvited, directed by Lewis Allen, was groundbreaking for the seriousness with which it treated the supernatural, haunted house genre, and it remains an elegant and eerie experience, featuring a classic score by Victor Young. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night - this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Dir. Lewis Allen · With Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Dir. Joe May · With Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
Dir. Fred M. Wilcox · With Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Dir. Leslie H. Martinson · With Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · With Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
Dir. William Dozier, Lorenzo Semple Jr. · With Adam West, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig
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