Doris Dowling’s Typical Vibe
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Doris Dowling has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1950s.
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Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
Dir. Giuseppe De Santis · With Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Robert Coote

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Dir. George Marshall · With Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix