William Rose’s Typical Vibe
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William Rose has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
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A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
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