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Melville Cooper has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Rebecca.
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La Ronde
1950
Romance · Comedy

Unfaithfully Yours
1948
Comedy · Romance

Pillion
2025
Romance · Drama

An Ideal Husband
1999
Drama · Comedy

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction
2023
Romance · Comedy

Moliere
2007
Romance · Drama

Sabrina
1954
Comedy · Romance

Lady J
2018
Drama · Romance
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Dir. Michael Curtiz, William Keighley · With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

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
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood