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Sullivan's Travels review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent

Sullivan's Travels 12 August 2005
...haracter so insultingly stereotyped as the cook who crops up from time to time) Joel McCrea underplays all the way, getting lots of funny lines and moments but never playi... Read customer review

The Palm Beach Story review by Savage from London, England

A classic comedy from the absolute master 31 October 2006
...cky plot has Claudette Colbert leave her mad-inventor (and much-loved) husband, Joel McCrea, because she reckons if she can find a wealthy man to marry, he will give her t... Read customer review

The Most Dangerous Game review by roncoach from

80 years old , and still it stands up to much of today's attempts to bring menace to the viewer. 2 November 2011
... version, with big names in the lovely Fay Wray and the extremely young-looking Joel McCrea ( who went on to make that great 5 Star film , 'Sullivans Travels' and so many ... Read customer review

Joel McCrea - filmography

Ride the High Country on DVD (1962)
Starring: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Western legends Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea made their sagebrush swan songs in this Sam Peckinpah tale. Two veteran gunslingers are hired to protect a gold shipment, only to find plenty of obstacles along the way.

72% from 326 members

Gunfight At Dodge City on DVD (1959)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire
Director: Joseph Newman
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Celebrated cowboy movie star Joel McCrea (Ride The High Country, The Virginian) plays gunman turned lawman, frontier legend Bat Masterson. On a quest to put his old life behind him and find the killer of his brother, Bat Masterson rolls into the notorious Dodge City with a chip on his shoulder and ..read more »

62% from 23 members

Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 - Stran... on DVD (1952)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Stranger on Horseback: Judge Thorne (Joel McCrea) is a circuit judge who comes to a small western town which is under the feudal thumb of the Bannerman family

47% from 4 members

Buffalo Bill on DVD (1944)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
Director: William A. Wellman
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. Buffalo Bill Cody would probably have enjoyed this Technicolor version of his life and times. Well played by Joel McCrea, Cody is first seen as an army Indian scout, pursuing peaceful coexistence despite the ..read more »

53% from 103 members

The Great Moment on DVD (1944)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Director: Preston Sturges
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The biography of Dr.W.T.Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

59% from 133 members

The More the Merrier (1943)
Starring: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Director: George Stevens
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A sparkling little comedy set in overcrowded, wartime Washington D.C., Arthur shares her small, one-bedroom apartment with McCrea and Coburn; the latter playing matchmaker. Coburn deservedly won a Best Supporting Oscar as the lovable Mr. Dingle.

61% from 16 members
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The Palm Beach Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea
Director: Preston Sturges
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An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea. His wife, who loves him, decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.

70% from 638 members

Sullivan's Travels on DVD (1941)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: Preston Sturges
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In Preston Sturges' classic comedy of Depression-era America, filmmaker John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), fed up with directing profitable comedies like Ants in Your Plants of 1939, is consumed with the desire to make a serious social statement in his upcoming film, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Unable ..read more »

73% from 1,637 member

Foreign Correspondent on DVD (1940)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's Personal History before producer Walter Wanger brought the property to the screen as Foreign Correspondent. What emerged was approximately 2 parts Sheehan and 8 parts director Alfred ..read more »

66% from 1,618 member

Dead End on DVD (1937)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
Director: William Wyler
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The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.

60% from 236 members

Barbary Coast on DVD (1935)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
Director: Howard Hawks
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Edward G Robinson dominates this film as Louis, the owner of a saloon bar in the 1850's Red Light district of San Fransisco - the Barbary Coast. A cast of Hollywood regulars support Robinson in this rip-roaring tale of the saloons of the California Gold Rush starring Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, ..read more »

57% from 37 members

The Most Dangerous Game on DVD (1932)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
Director: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Certificate:
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An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers

65% from 215 members

The Virginian on DVD
Starring: Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts
Director: Stuart Gilmore
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Joel McCrea stars a s a local ranch hand who risks losing his best friend and the woman he loves when forced into a showdown with ruthless cattle thieves. When Molly Wood, a well-educated Easterner, arrives in a small Wyoming town to be the new schoolmarm, the Virginian and his best friend, Steve, ..read more »

49% from 106 members

Cry Blood Apache on DVD
Starring: Joel McCrea, Jody McCrea, Marie Gahva
Director: Jack Starrett
Certificate:
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The focus of this action-packed western is an elderly man's recollections of how he and his cohorts murdered a travelling group of Apache Indians. The one person that survived the slaughter made a promise to the group that they were headed for gold, but her brother (the old man) had plans to kill them.

35% from 18 members

Joel McCrea facts

5 most recent films

Ride the High Country - 3.5 stars
Gunfight At Dodge City - 3.0 stars
Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 - Stranger On Horseback - 2.5 stars
Buffalo Bill - 2.5 stars
The Great Moment - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Sullivan's Travels - 3.5 stars
Ride the High Country - 3.5 stars
The Palm Beach Story - 3.5 stars
Foreign Correspondent - 3.5 stars
The Most Dangerous Game - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cry Blood Apache - 2.0 stars
Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 - Stranger On Horseback - 2.5 stars
Barbary Coast - 3.0 stars
The More the Merrier - 3.0 stars
Gunfight At Dodge City - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Fay Wray - 2 times - show films
Jody McCrea - 2 times - show films
Robert Armstrong - 2 times - show films
Marie Gahva - 2 times - show films
William Demarest - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Preston Sturges - 3 times - show films
Irving Pichel - 2 times - show films
Jack Starrett - 2 times - show films
Ernest B. Schoedsack - 2 times - show films
Sam Peckinpah - 1 times - show films