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Whit Bissell has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Time Machine.
Recurring themes

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

Le Trou
1960
Drama · Thriller

No Way Out
1950
Drama · Crime

Johnny Handsome
1989
Crime · Drama

Shot Caller
2017
Crime · Drama

Bad Boys
1983
Crime · Drama

We Own the Night
2007
Drama · Crime

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Dir. George Pal · With Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
Dir. Martin Ritt · With Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Dir. Alfred L. Werker · With Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt

The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With James Darren, Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell
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