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Clifton James has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut.
Recurring themes

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Adventure · Drama

The Way West
1967
Action · Adventure

Dodes'ka-den
1970
Drama

The Last Picture Show
1971
Drama · Romance

The Front
1976
Comedy · Drama

The Highwaymen
2019
Crime · Drama

The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
Thriller · Drama

Hard Times
1975
Drama · Action

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Dir. John Sayles · With Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Dir. John Sayles · With John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence

Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
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