Joel McCrea
27 titles
Filmography
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Sullivan's Travels
(1941)In this comedic masterpiece, a wealthy director (Joel McCrea) wants to find "real" people for his next great film (co-starring Veronica Lake).

Stars in My Crown
(1950)A humble minister and his small-town Southern congregation find the inner strength to lay down arms and rebuild their lives and their town after the devastation of the United States Civil War.

Foreign Correspondent
(1940)The assassination of a Dutch mediator on the eve of World War II plunges an American reporter into the dangerous plot of a secret spy organization.

Wichita
(1955)Wyatt Earp is hired by a western town to bring some law and order to a place that is being raided by outlaws.

The Most Dangerous Game
(1932)After a harrowing shipwreck, a man and woman fight for their survival when they learn they've been captured and set up as prey for a maniacal hunter.

Trooper Hook
(1957)A woman who had been captured by an Apache chief years earlier is rescued and tries to return to her previous life.

The Tall Stranger
(1957)A Union officer is wounded in battle and left for dead. Rescued by a wagon train, he's nursed back to health and offers to guide the wagons west but the Confederates among the passengers ostracise him.

Stranger on Horseback
(1955)Circuit Judge Rick Thorne hunts for justice in a small frontier town under the feudal thumb of the suspected killer’s tyrannical cattle baron father.

The Outriders
(1950)Three Confederate soldiers escape from Union captivity, only to be captured by bandit Keeley -- then spared when he discovers they're fellow Southerners. Keeley forces them to help with his next planned heist: stealing gold from a wagon train led by Don Antonio Chaves. The men insinuate themselves with Chaves in preparation for the robbery, but when Will (Joel McCrea) falls in love with a widow (Arlene Dahl) traveling with Chaves, the three men must decide whether to continue the plan.

Gunsight Ridge
(1957)Gunslinger Mike Ryan (Joel McCrea) is intent on bringing the dangerous outlaw Velvet Clark (Mark Stevens) to justice. However, Ryan is at a disadvantage, since he doesn't know what the masked robber looks like. Ryan begins to work with the area sheriff and falls for the lawman's pretty daughter, Molly Jones (Joan Weldon). With Clark hiding in plain sight as a piano player, the criminal manages to evade Ryan for a while, but eventually the two adversaries come face-to-face.

Buffalo Bill
(1944)The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

The Oklahoman
(1957)After his wife dies in childbirth en route to California in 1870, Joel McCrea ("Sullivan's Travels," "Buffalo Bill") settles down in Oklahoma. He quickly finds trouble when he tries to protect an Indian woman caring for his baby from the two villains who are attempting to cheat her father out of his oil-rich land. With Emmy-winner Barbara Hale ("Perry Mason") and Brad Dexter ("The Magnificent Seven").

Fort Massacre
(1958)Joel McCrea gives a compelling performance as a cavalry sergeant apparently leading his men to safety, but actually slowly going mad in an insane attempt to avenge an Indian massacre.

The Gunfight at Dodge City
(1959)Seeking a fresh start, Bat Masterson (Joel McCrea) rolls into Dodge City with a chip on his shoulder and a gun on his hip. But soon, his mysterious past will catch up with him when an old friend calls in a favor...one that might cost him his life!
The Sport Parade
(1932)Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.

The More the Merrier
(1943)
Dead End
(1937)In an East Side New York City neighborhood ravaged by poverty, an infamous gangster returns home where streets kids hope to follow in his footsteps.

Come and Get It
(1936)An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Ride the High Country
(1962)From acclaimed action director Sam Peckinpah comes this tense explosive drama about two aging gunslingers who sign on to transport gold from a remote mining town.
The Palm Beach Story
(1942)Jerry walks out of her Park Avenue apartment, away from her penniless inventor husband and on to a train heading for Miami, but when she finds a millionaire, will she stick with him or persuade him to invest in her man?