Richard Alexander’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Highest-ranked title
Richard Alexander has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1930s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Modern Times.
Recurring themes

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Dir. F. W. Murnau · With Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Dir. Charley Rogers, Gus Meins · With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlotte Henry