Edward Binns’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Edward Binns has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including 12 Angry Men.
Recurring themes

I Confess
1953
Drama · Thriller

Force of Evil
1950
Crime · Drama

East of Eden
1955
Drama

The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
Thriller · Drama

Elevator to the Gallows
1958
Crime · Drama

Rififi
1955
Crime · Thriller

Death of a Cyclist
1955
Crime · Drama

The Life of David Gale
2003
Drama · Thriller

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

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, John Crawford

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
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