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Larry Gates has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Drama
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Dir. John Sturges · With James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan
