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Robert Wise has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Recurring themes

The Sound of Music
1965 · Movie · Director
Top 5%Disney+ · Included

West Side Story
1961 · Movie · Director
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

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

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979 · Movie · Director
Top 37%Paramount+ · Included

Run Silent, Run Deep
1958 · Movie · Director
Top 42%MGM+ · Included

I Want to Live!
1958 · Movie · Director
Top 42%Tubi · Free w/ ads

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…
Dir. Robert Wise · With Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson

Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
Dir. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise · With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

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

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
Dir. Robert Wise · With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Dir. Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise · With Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Dir. Robert Wise · With George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton
A man is convinced that 11-year old girl, Ivy, is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before Ivy was born.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck