Robert Ryan’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Robert Ryan has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Dirty Dozen.
Recurring themes

Hang 'em High
1968
Western · Drama

Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
Western

3:10 to Yuma
1957
Western · Drama

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Crime · Drama

The Big Combo
1955
Drama · Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Drama · Crime

Body and Soul
1947
Drama

The Longest Day
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included

Act of Violence
1949 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Max · Included

The Professionals
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Netflix · Included

The Set-Up
1949 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Max · Included

Day of the Outlaw
1959 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Prime Video · Included

Clash by Night
1952 · Movie · Actor
Top 55%Max · Included

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Dir. Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton · With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Dir. John Sturges · With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Dir. André de Toth · With Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Dir. Ken Annakin · With Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Dir. John Sturges · With James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
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