Ernest Lehman’s Typical Vibe
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Ernest Lehman has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including North by Northwest.
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North by Northwest
1959 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Sound of Music
1965 · Movie · Writer
Top 5%Disney+ · Included

Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · Movie · Writer
Top 12%Prime Video · Included

West Side Story
1961 · Movie · Writer
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

Hello, Dolly!
1969 · Movie · Writer
Top 23%Disney+ · Included

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
Dir. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise · With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Dir. Walter Lang · With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Dir. Gene Kelly · With Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
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