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Arthur Kennedy has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Lawrence of Arabia.
1955
Drama

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Dir. David Lean · With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Dir. George Pollock · With Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
Dir. Jorge Grau · With Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Dir. Raoul Walsh · With Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Dir. William Wyler · With Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Cristina Raines, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine

Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian American mother and European-American father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Dir. John Ford · With Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Dir. Raoul Walsh · With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Dir. Alberto De Martino · With Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy
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