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Jay C. Flippen has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Killing.
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Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Dir. King Vidor · With Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Dir. László Benedek · With Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Dir. Elliot Silverstein · With Jane Fonda, Michael Callan, Lee Marvin
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