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Arthur O'Connell has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Anatomy of a Murder.
1973
Comedy · Drama

Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

The Great Race
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Tubi · Free w/ ads

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Man of the West
1958 · Movie · Actor
Top 55%Prime Video · Included

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood

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

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Dir. Phil Karlson · With Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell

Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell
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