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John Houseman has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Three Days of the Condor.
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When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Dir. John Irvin · With Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm

A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Dir. James Bridges · With Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Dir. James Bridges · With Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates
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