Lew Ayres’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Lew Ayres has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by All Quiet on the Western Front.
Recurring themes

The China Syndrome
1979
Drama · Thriller

Operation Crossbow
1965
Drama · War

The Intruder
1962
Drama

The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Drama

Boot Camp
2008
Drama · Thriller

Rules of Engagement
2000
War · Drama

Rome, Open City
1945
Drama · War

Play Misty for Me
1971
Drama · Thriller

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Dir. George Cukor · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell

Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Dir. Don Taylor · With William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.
With David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Austin Stoker