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Dana Andrews has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Ox-Bow Incident.
Recurring themes

Body and Soul
1947
Drama

The Set-Up
1949
Drama · Crime

No Way Out
1950
Drama · Crime

The Sicilian Clan
1969
Crime · Drama

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Big Combo
1955
Drama · Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Drama · Crime

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
Dir. William A. Wellman · With Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Dir. William Wyler · With Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Harold Russell

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Bert Freed

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Dir. William Wyler · With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Dir. Ken Annakin · With Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell

A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Dir. Jack Smight · With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy
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