Joe Sawyer’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Joe Sawyer has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Gilda.
Recurring themes

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

Kiss of Death
1947
Crime · Thriller

Wrath of Man
2021
Thriller · Crime

You Only Live Once
1937
Crime · Drama

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Big Combo
1955
Drama · Crime

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
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Dir. Charles Vidor · With Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Dir. Raoul Walsh · With James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Dir. Archie Mayo · With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
Dir. John Ford · With Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
Dir. Howard Hughes · With Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell