Ed Begley’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Ed Begley has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including 12 Angry Men.
Recurring themes

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Dir. Anatole Litvak · With Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Dir. Ted Post · With Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Dir. Ken Russell · With Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.
Dir. Daniel Haller · With Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley