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Dudley Nichols has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Stagecoach.
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Stagecoach
1939 · Movie · Writer
Top 5%Max · Included

Scarlet Street
1945 · Movie · Writer
Top 12%MGM+ · Included

The Tin Star
1957 · Movie · Writer
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

And Then There Were None
1945 · Movie · Writer
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 · Movie · Writer
Top 49%Tubi · Free w/ ads
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Dir. John Ford · With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Bancroft

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.
Dir. René Clair · With Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
Dir. John Ford · With Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
Dir. Sam Wood · With Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
Dir. George Pollock · With Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
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