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Hugh Marlowe has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by All About Eve.
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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Dir. Jules Dassin · With Richard Widmark, Francis L. Sullivan, Gene Tierney

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
Dir. Henry King · With Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
Dir. Fred F. Sears · With Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis
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