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Richard Conte has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s.
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The Set-Up
1949
Drama · Crime

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Drama · Crime

Kiss of Death
1947
Crime · Thriller

Blackboard Jungle
1955
Crime · Drama

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Dir. Jules Dassin · With Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Dir. Joseph H. Lewis · With Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Dir. George Stevens · With Max von Sydow, Michael Anderson Jr., Carroll Baker
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Gene Tierney, José Ferrer, Richard Conte