King Vidor’s Typical Vibe
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King Vidor has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1950s.
Recurring themes

The Cranes Are Flying
1957
Drama · Romance

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923
Drama · Romance

Anastasia
1956
Drama · Romance

Sayonara
1957
Drama · Romance

A Star Is Born
1954
Drama · Music

Way Down East
1920
Drama · Romance

The Bigamist
1953
Drama · Romance

Frida
2002
Drama · Romance

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Dir. King Vidor · With John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Dir. King Vidor · With Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach

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

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Dir. King Vidor · With Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Dir. King Vidor · With Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Dir. King Vidor · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
Dir. King Vidor · With Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders