Kent Smith’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Kent Smith has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Spiral Staircase.
Recurring themes

The Wolf Man
1941
Horror · Drama

Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968
Mystery · Horror

I Walked with a Zombie
1943
Mystery · Horror

Phantom of the Opera
1943
Horror · Romance

The Premature Burial
1962
Horror · Drama

The Tomb of Ligeia
1964
Horror · Drama

After
2012
Mystery · Thriller

Dragonwyck
1946
Drama · Romance

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · With Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Dir. King Vidor · With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Dir. Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise · With Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph