Dots Johnson’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, layered, gritty

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Dots Johnson has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1950s.

A Time to Kill
1996
Crime · Drama

The Order
2024
Crime · Drama

Dark Blue
2002
Crime · Thriller

Detective Story
1951
Crime · Drama

Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Drama · Thriller

The Valachi Papers
1972
Crime · Drama

He Walked by Night
1949
Thriller · Crime

Rules of Engagement
2000
War · Drama
Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
Dir. Roberto Rossellini · With Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier