Joel McCrea
Actor
- Most Dangerous Game, The (1932)
- Dir. Ernest B Shoedsack, Irving Pichel
Feat. Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
- This mother of all chase–movies was adapted from Richard Connell's book by the makers of KING KONG. A fresh–faced Joel McCrea is…
- Bird of Paradise (1932)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday…
- Erotic adventure drama about a sailor who falls in love with a woman from an unnamed Pacific island where the film is set. Plenty of colonialist…
- Barbary Coast (1935)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson…
- Set as far out west as a Western can go – San Fransisco, circa the 1850s gold–rush days. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are two…
- Dead End (1937)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea…
- Highly watchable account of life in the slum tenements of NYC – if you can accept the sentimental touches. With Humphrey Bogart as a gangster…
- Foreign Correspondent (1940)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
- On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
- Sullivan's Travels (1941)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick…
- Hailed as dir. Sturges most reflective statement on his comic art, this finds lightweight Hollywood director Joel McCrea dressing as a tramp in order…
- Palm Beach Story, The (1942)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor…
- Another fine Preston Sturges comedy, this concerns a gifted but struggling architect (McCrea), whose wife (Colbert) abandons him for the hope of…
- More the Merrier, The (1943)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
- Winning romantic comedy with a peerless Jean Arthur allowing two men to share her apartment, one of whom she falls in love with.
- Great Moment, The (1944)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Betty Field, William Demarest…
- An oddly serious drama for dir. Sturges, this biopic of WTG Morgan (who discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether in the 19th century), played…
- Buffalo Bill (1944)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
- Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
- Virginian, The (1946)
- Feat. Joel McCrea, Sonny Tufts, Brian Donlevy
- Fourth time out of the stable adaptation of Owen Wister's influential novel.
Local ranch hand (McCrea) risks losing his best friend and the woman…
- Gunfight at Dodge City, The (1959)
- Dir. Joseph M. Newman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire…
- Lean and mean western with Joel McCrea as a reluctant sheriff struggling to restore order to town besieged with corruption and violence.
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
- Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…