Robert J. Wilke’s Typical Vibe
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Robert J. Wilke has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s.
Recurring themes

Anastasia
1956
Drama · Romance

Sayonara
1957
Drama · Romance

Othello
1951
Drama

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Adventure · Romance

Summer with Monika
1953
Drama · Romance

The Barefoot Contessa
1954
Drama

Imitation of Life
1959
Drama · Romance

Senso
1954
Romance · Drama

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Dir. Douglas Sirk · With Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
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