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Murray Hamilton has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Jaws.
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When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Dir. Robert Rossen · With Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Dir. Jeannot Szwarc · With Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Dir. Melville Shavelson · With Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern · With Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace
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