Don Taylor’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Don Taylor has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Stalag 17.
Recurring themes

La Traversée de Paris
1956
Comedy · Drama

The Great War
1959
Comedy · War

The Long, Hot Summer
1958
Drama

Mister Roberts
1955
Comedy · Drama

I Vitelloni
1953
Comedy · Drama

Everybody Go Home!
1960
Comedy · War

SubUrbia
1997
Comedy · Drama

Drifting Clouds
1996
Comedy · Drama

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With William Holden, Robert Strauss, Don Taylor

Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Dir. Don Taylor · With William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Dir. Jules Dassin · With Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Dir. William A. Wellman · With Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport