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CriticCrunch has 7 Douglas Spencer titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile.
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The Long, Hot Summer
1958
Drama

Bellissima
1952
Drama

Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956
Drama

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
Adventure · War

I Vitelloni
1953
Comedy · Drama

The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
Adventure · Drama

Some Came Running
1958
Drama · Romance

The Tin Star
1957
Western

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
Dir. George Stevens · With Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Dir. George Stevens · With Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters

A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Dir. Nunnally Johnson · With Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Dir. Christian Nyby · With Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Dir. Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold · With Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow
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