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Albert Salmi has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s.
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A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
Dir. Harold Ramis · With Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
Dir. James W. Roberson · With James Houghton, Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman

A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
Dir. Matthew Robbins · With Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson

Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
Dir. Henry King · With Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Dir. John Sturges · With James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Dir. John Huston · With Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
Dir. Bert I. Gordon · With Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson