Michael Conrad’s Typical Vibe
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Michael Conrad has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s.
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In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve