Robert Coote’s Typical Vibe
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Robert Coote has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by A Matter of Life and Death.
Recurring themes

The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
Drama · Romance

Sanshiro Sugata
1943
Drama

La Ronde
1950
Romance · Comedy

Marriage Italian Style
1964
Drama · Romance

Born Yesterday
1950
Comedy · Romance

The Alibi
2006
Romance · Comedy

Being Julia
2004
Comedy · Drama

In the Heights
2021
Drama · Romance

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Robert Coote

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Dir. Basil Dearden · With Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Dir. George Sidney · With Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Dir. Douglas Hickox · With Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Dir. George Sidney · With Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Dir. George Stevens · With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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