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Vera Miles has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Psycho.
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Dir. John Ford · With John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Dir. John Ford · With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Vera Miles

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle

An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.
Dir. Larry Stewart · With Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern · With Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace
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