Brian Donlevy’s Typical Vibe
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Brian Donlevy has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s.
Recurring themes

No Way Out
1950
Drama · Crime

He Walked by Night
1949
Thriller · Crime

While the City Sleeps
1956
Thriller · Drama

A Time to Kill
1996
Crime · Drama

The Order
2024
Crime · Drama

Dark Blue
2002
Crime · Thriller

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Dir. George Marshall · With James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
Dir. William A. Wellman · With Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Dir. Val Guest · With Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, David King-Wood

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Dir. Joseph H. Lewis · With Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Dir. Val Guest · With Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Dir. Stuart Heisler · With Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Dir. Henry King · With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
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