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Joan Bennett has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s.
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Rope
1948
Thriller · Crime

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
Drama · Romance

Kiss of Death
1947
Crime · Thriller

Gaslight
1944
Thriller · Drama

The Letter
1940
Crime · Drama

The Stranger
1946
Thriller · Crime

Odd Man Out
1947
Crime · Drama

The Fallen Idol
1948
Drama · Thriller

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Dir. George Cukor · With Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Dir. Max Ophüls · With James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere
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