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Hurd Hatfield has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s.
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Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Dir. Albert Lewin · With George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhán McKenna, Hurd Hatfield

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy

When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels