Pat O'Brien’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Pat O'Brien has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Some Like It Hot.
Recurring themes

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn