Robert Greig’s Typical Vibe
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Robert Greig has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Sullivan's Travels.
Recurring themes

A Foreign Affair
1948
Romance · Comedy

Design for Living
1933
Comedy · Romance

Nothing Sacred
1937
Comedy · Romance

Unfaithfully Yours
1948
Comedy · Romance

Easy Virtue
2008
Comedy · Romance

Out of Sight
1998
Romance · Comedy

Ninotchka
1939
Comedy · Romance

I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
Comedy · Crime

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
Dir. Tod Browning · With Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
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