Mark Robson’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Mark Robson has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s.
Recurring themes

Operation Crossbow
1965
Drama · War

The Enforcer
1951
Drama · Thriller

The Lost Weekend
1945
Drama

Body and Soul
1947
Drama

The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Drama

Fair Game
2010
Drama · Thriller

Brokedown Palace
1999
Drama · Thriller

The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Action · Drama

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling

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 Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.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
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."
Dir. Mark Robson · With Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate