Archie Mayo’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, wistful, moderate, clear, tense

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Archie Mayo has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s.

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Comedy · Crime

Horse Feathers
1932
Comedy · Romance

You’re Missing the Point
1940
Comedy

Monkey Business
1931
Comedy

The Music Box
1932
Comedy

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948
Horror · Comedy

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
Comedy · Crime

What's New Pussycat?
1965
Comedy · Romance

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Dir. Archie Mayo · With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Dir. Archie Mayo · With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx