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Harold Jacob Smith’s Typical Vibe
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Harold Jacob Smith has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
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Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
Dir. Robert Gordon · With Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis
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