Konstantin Shayne’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Konstantin Shayne has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1950s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Vertigo.
Recurring themes

Rope
1948
Thriller · Crime

The Woman in the Window
1944
Crime · Drama

Out of the Blue
2022
Mystery · Thriller

Blow Out
1981
Crime · Mystery

The Oxford Murders
2008
Crime · Mystery

Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
Mystery · Thriller

Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
Thriller · Mystery

Gaslight
1940
Thriller · Mystery

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff