George Macready’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
George Macready has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Paths of Glory.
Recurring themes

No Way Out
1950
Drama · Crime

Casque d'Or
1952
Drama · Crime

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Big Combo
1955
Drama · Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Drama · Crime

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Dir. Charles Vidor · With Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
Dir. John Farrow · With Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Dir. William Wyler · With Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud

The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Dir. Paul Henreid · With Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel