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William Schallert has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Incredible Shrinking Man.
1967
Drama · Crime
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
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
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Dir. David Miller · With Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
as Appa Ali Apsa (voice) · Voice
Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.
Dir. Lauren Montgomery · With Christopher Meloni, Victor Garber, Michael Madsen
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Dir. Joseph Sargent · With Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
as Professor Quigley
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..
Dir. Robert Butler · With Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn
Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.
Dir. Stephen King · With Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish
