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Denis O'Dea has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1950s.
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1952
Drama · History

The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959
Adventure · Drama

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
Adventure · War

The Naked Jungle
1954
Adventure · Romance

The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
Adventure · Drama

The Wild One
1953
Drama · Crime

The Indian Tomb
1959
Adventure · Drama

Trapeze
1956
Drama · Romance

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Dir. Carol Reed · With James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Dir. Raoul Walsh · With Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Dir. Carol Reed · With Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Dir. Byron Haskin · With Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Dir. John Ford · With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
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