Leo G. Carroll’s Typical Vibe
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Leo G. Carroll has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including North by Northwest.
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The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959
Adventure · Drama

Magnificent Obsession
1954
Drama · Romance

Anastasia
1956
Drama · Romance

Sayonara
1957
Drama · Romance

The Naked Jungle
1954
Adventure · Romance

Water for Elephants
2011
Drama · Romance

...And God Created Woman
1956
Drama · Romance

Mogambo
1953
Adventure · Drama

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Dir. David Swift · With Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Dir. William Wyler · With Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Dir. Jack Arnold · With John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Dir. Edwin L. Marin · With Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Terry Kilburn

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Dir. Henry King · With Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner

In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli
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