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Ben Maddow has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
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On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Dir. John Huston · With Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
Dir. Irving Lerner · With Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark

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
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