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Wallace Ford has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Shadow of a Doubt.
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In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Dir. Henry Koster · With James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Dir. Tod Browning · With Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Dir. Guy Green · With Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
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

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
Dir. John Cromwell · With Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
Dir. John Ford · With Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
Dir. Christy Cabanne · With Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford