Charles McGraw’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Charles McGraw has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Birds.
Recurring themes

Flic Story
1975
Crime · Thriller

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

Charley Varrick
1973
Crime · Thriller

3:10 to Yuma
1957
Western · Drama

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Big Combo
1955
Drama · Crime

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Dir. Dalton Trumbo · With Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Dir. Ted Post · With Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · With Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
Dir. L.Q. Jones · With Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Jason Robards