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Ranald MacDougall has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s.
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A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Dir. Byron Haskin · With Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer
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