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Richard Basehart has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by La Strada.
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When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
Dir. Federico Fellini · With Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
Dir. John Huston · With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
Dir. Federico Fellini · With Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Dir. Alfred L. Werker · With Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Dir. Jean Negulesco · With Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Terry Becker

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport
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