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Stirling Silliphant has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Village of the Damned.
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Dir. Wolf Rilla · With George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Dir. John Guillermin · With Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
Dir. Menahem Golan · With Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Dir. James Fargo · With Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
Dir. Ralph Nelson · With Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
