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Albert Dekker has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Wild Bunch.
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An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
Dir. William A. Wellman · With Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
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