Patrick McGoohan’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Patrick McGoohan has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Braveheart.
Recurring themes

Airport
1970
Drama · Thriller

Firefox
1982
Science Fiction · Action

From Russia with Love
1963
Action · Thriller

The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
1915
Drama · Thriller

The Eiger Sanction
1975
Action · Adventure

Force 10 from Navarone
1978
Drama · Adventure

Takedown
2000
Thriller

Joe Kidd
1972
Western · Drama

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.
Dir. John Musker, Ron Clements · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, Emma Thompson

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Dir. Patrick McGoohan, George Markstein · With Patrick McGoohan

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
Dir. John Sturges · With Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan

as Major Cabot
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Dir. Damiano Damiani · With Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois