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Paul Osborn has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s.
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In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Dir. William Dieterle · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Dir. Clarence Brown · With Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
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