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Don Siegel has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Dirty Harry.
1970
Thriller · Crime
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
Dir. Don Siegel · With John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fábregas
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker
