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John Hoyt has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 2000s.
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I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Drama · Crime

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

Dead Ringer
1964
Crime · Drama

The Wrong Man
1956
Crime · Drama

Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
Western · Drama
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Dir. Jules Dassin · With Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Dir. Joseph H. Lewis · With Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Dir. Rudolph Maté · With Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Dir. Ralph Nelson · With James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bill Travers

A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
Dir. Jim Mickle · With Nick Damici, Tim House, Antone Pagán