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Highest-ranked title
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Robert Siodmak has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Spiral Staircase.
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Gaslight
1944
Thriller · Drama

Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
Thriller · Mystery

Gaslight
1940
Thriller · Mystery

Kiss of Death
1947
Crime · Thriller

The Body Snatcher
1945
Horror · Thriller

The Stranger
1946
Thriller · Crime

Crossfire
1947
Crime · Mystery

Key Largo
1948
Crime · Thriller

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, Robert Siodmak · With Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton