Norman Bird’s Typical Vibe
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Norman Bird has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s.
Recurring themes

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen

A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.
Dir. Sidney Hayers · With Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Dir. Basil Dearden · With Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Dir. Basil Dearden · With Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey

Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won't be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.
Dir. Ralph Bakshi · With Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Dir. Nathan Juran · With Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries
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