Basil Dearden’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Basil Dearden has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Dead of Night.
Recurring themes

The Sicilian Clan
1969
Crime · Drama

Le Trou
1960
Drama · Thriller

Operation Crossbow
1965
Drama · War

He Walked by Night
1949
Thriller · Crime

High and Low
1963
Drama · Crime

In Cold Blood
1967
Crime · Drama

The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Crime · Drama

Salvatore Giuliano
1962
Crime · Drama

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Dir. Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer · With Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Dir. Basil Dearden · With Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Dir. Basil Dearden · With Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Dir. Eliot Elisofon, Basil Dearden · With Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson