George Coulouris’s Typical Vibe
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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
George Coulouris has 6 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 Citizen Kane.
Recurring themes

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory
Esoterica collector Dr Maitland buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source; the artifact is what remains of the Marquis De Sade. Much too soon, Maitland discovers that the skull is turning him into a frenzied killer.
Dir. Freddie Francis · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel

Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.
Dir. Seth Holt · With Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Dir. Alberto De Martino · With Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy