Joel McCrea Filmography
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1. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Votes: 23,556 | Gross: $3.48M
2. They Shall Have Music (1939)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family, Music
A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Gene Reynolds
Votes: 497
3. Private Worlds (1935)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama
The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's field."
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson
Votes: 391
4. The Great Moment (1944)
Passed | 83 min | Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,072
5. Two in a Crowd (1936)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Henry Armetta, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 91
6. Kept Husbands (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Daughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Ned Sparks
Votes: 616
7. Cattle Empire (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Western
Released from prison, a trail boss is solicited by rival cattle barons to drive their respective cattle herds to Fort Clemson.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates
Votes: 777
8. The Great Man's Lady (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, K.T. Stevens
Votes: 843
9. The Common Law (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
Young Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Lew Cody, Robert Williams
Votes: 414
10. Frenchie (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 562
11. Barbary Coast (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan
Votes: 2,032
12. Stars in My Crown (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Family, Western
In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Votes: 2,480
13. Bed of Roses (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Pert Kelton
Votes: 995
14. The Crowning Experience (1960)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many schools for the under-privileged, this ... See full summary »
Directors: Marion Clayton Anderson, Rickard Tegström | Stars: Muriel Smith, Ann Buckles, Louis Byles, George McCurdy
Votes: 28
15. The Silver Cord (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews, Eric Linden
Votes: 629
16. Shoot First (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Thriller
A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer, Marius Goring
Votes: 351
17. Freedom of the Press (1928)
62 min | Mystery
Director: George Melford | Stars: Lewis Stone, Marceline Day, Malcolm McGregor, Henry B. Walthall
18. The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Western
After his brother the sheriff is murdered, Bat Masterson is elected to the job and is determined to find the killer and make Dodge City safe.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Nancy Gates
Votes: 1,066
19. Once a Sinner (1931)
71 min | Romance
Director: Guthrie McClintic | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 26
20. Our Little Girl (1935)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A troubled child tries to patch up her parents' broken marriage by running away.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 544
21. So This Is College (1929)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr
Votes: 284
22. Scarlet River (1933)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film. Tom soon learns her foreman has been rustling and poisoning ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Furness
Votes: 224
23. The Five O'Clock Girl (1928)
Musical
"The Five O'Clock Girl" was a successful Broadway play starring Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Marion Davies' Cosmopolitan Productions bought the rights for the play and filmed it as a feature ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Charles King, George K. Arthur, William Austin
Votes: 62
24. Border River (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Western
A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendáriz, Alfonso Bedoya
Votes: 609
25. Black Horse Canyon (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mari Blanchard, Race Gentry, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 415
26. These Three (1936)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 3,014
27. Banjo on My Knee (1936)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 669
28. The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
71 min | Comedy
Marion goes to college to pursue a handsome young man and discovers that he is coach of a women's basketball team.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton, Thelma Hill
Votes: 754 | Gross: $0.49M
29. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
PG-13 | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 13,950 | Gross: $0.97M
30. Business and Pleasure (1932)
77 min | Comedy
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Jetta Goudal, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 58
31. The Young Rounders (1971)
Western
Director: Casey Tibbs | Stars: Joel McCrea, Slim Pickens, Casey Tibbs, Montie Montana
Votes: 19
32. The Lone Hand (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
In 1870, widowed farmer Zachary Hallock secretly joins a group of outlaws as a solution to his money problems.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake
Votes: 559
33. Rockabye (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager, that not even the publicity-seeking world of the theater has guessed her ... See full summary »
Directors: George Cukor, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas, Jobyna Howland
Votes: 523
34. The Single Standard (1929)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Wealthy Arden Stuart is bored in a party. After refusing Tommy Hewlett's marriage proposal, she has her driver drive her to a lonely place, where they make love and return to the party, ... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 705 | Gross: $0.66M
35. The Enemy (1927)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Ralph Emerson, Frank Currier
Votes: 128 | Gross: $0.47M
36. Mustang Country (1976)
G | 79 min | Drama, Family, Western
A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.
Director: John C. Champion | Stars: Joel McCrea, Robert Fuller, Patrick Wayne, Nika Mina
Votes: 297
37. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,406
38. Four Faces West (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Western
In New Mexico, a cowpoke forces a banker at gunpoint to give him a loan without collateral in exchange for an IOU, but the marshal and his posse chase after him.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 984
39. Primrose Path (1940)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers
Votes: 1,782
40. South of St. Louis (1949)
Passed | 88 min | Western
The friendship of three Texas ranchers whose ranch is destroyed by Cottrell, of the Union army, and his band of outlaw raiders. The working title was "Distant Drums", and south of St. Louis was a term used to describe Civil War deserters.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 565
41. Born to Love (1931)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 325
42. The Virginian (1962–1971)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
Personable Western series based in Wyoming from the 1890s onward.
Stars: Doug McClure, James Drury, Lee J. Cobb, Sara Lane
Votes: 3,140
43. The Virginian (1946)
Passed | 87 min | Western
In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher is courted by two cowpokes but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers.
Director: Stuart Gilmore | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton
Votes: 1,276
44. Fort Massacre (1958)
Approved | 80 min | Western
A cavalry troop finds itself under constant attack by Indians.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Susan Cabot
Votes: 1,073
45. Bird of Paradise (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,556
46. Saddle Tramp (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
A saddle tramp unexpectedly becomes foster parent to four children for whom he provides by working on a ranch that's embroiled in a feud with another ranch and cattle rustlers.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire
Votes: 691
47. Framed (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 2,269
48. Wichita (1955)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Western
In 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford
Votes: 2,328
49. Framed (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde, William Holden
Votes: 320
50. Trooper Hook (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews
Votes: 992
51. Splendor (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
The once-great Lorrimore family faces bankruptcy unless older son Brighton marries wealthy Edith Gilbert. When Brighton instead returns from a trip with his new wife Phyllis, she receives a... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Helen Westley
Votes: 336
52. Girls About Town (1931)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Two gold-diggers prey on rich old men, but one of them falls in love with a rich young man.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 701
53. Three Blind Mice (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 401
54. Dead Man's Curve (1928)
60 min | Action, Drama
Director: Richard Rosson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sally Blane, Charles Byer, Arthur Metcalfe
Votes: 32
55. Dynamite (1929)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye
Votes: 485
56. The Sport Parade (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Spoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Joel McCrea, Marian Marsh, William Gargan, Robert Benchley
Votes: 265
57. Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 771
58. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 836
59. Hollywood Story (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull
Votes: 907
60. Cattle Drive (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Western
A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames
Votes: 760
61. The Silver Horde (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 624
62. Half a Sinner (1934)
70 min | Drama
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Sally Blane, Joel McCrea, Berton Churchill, Alexandria Carlisle
Votes: 27
63. The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
An heiress switches places with her secretary in order to find a man who will love her for who she is and not for her money.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 1,016
64. The Oklahoman (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Western
A doctor stops in a small Southwestern town to bury his wife. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs into violent cattle ranchers.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 642
65. The Lost Squadron (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, History, War
In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for dictatorial director Von Furst.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Dorothy Jordan
Votes: 817
66. The Divine Lady (1928)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
Votes: 924
67. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 12,829 | Gross: $0.44M
68. The Tall Stranger (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer aids a wagon train of former Confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle-rustling and land-grabbing feuds.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Pate
Votes: 914
69. Freedom of the Press (1928)
62 min | Mystery
Director: George Melford | Stars: Lewis Stone, Marceline Day, Malcolm McGregor, Henry B. Walthall
70. Union Pacific (1939)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, Western
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston
Votes: 3,368
71. Lightnin' (1930)
Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Lightnin' has the young man come to his hotel to find his wife who is seeking a divorce. He talks to the two who obviously are in love but they get in a tiff and the young man says "OK, I ... See full summary »
Director: Henry King | Stars: Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Joel McCrea, Helen Cohan
Votes: 60
72. Ride the High Country (1962)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Western
An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr
Votes: 14,785
73. Woman Wanted (1935)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another auto. Ann escapes and ends up in the vehicle of Tony Baxter, a lawyer who has eyes for her.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone, Louis Calhern
Votes: 540
74. One Man's Journey (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose ... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea
Votes: 534
75. The Sioux Nation (1970)
42 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Casey Tibbs | Stars: Joel McCrea, Enos Poor Bear, Julia Eagle Bear, Nancy Weasel Bear
Votes: 11
76. Come and Get It (1936)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Directors: Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson | Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan
Votes: 2,372
77. The San Francisco Story (1952)
Passed | 80 min | Western
In 1856, San Francisco is the scene of political battles between criminal organizations led by corrupt politicians and vigilante committees formed by honest citizens.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer, Richard Erdman
Votes: 321
78. He Married His Wife (1940)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young, Mary Boland
Votes: 270 | Gross: $0.05M
79. The Unseen (1945)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 604
80. The More the Merrier (1943)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy
During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Votes: 7,439
81. The Outriders (1950)
Not Rated | 93 min | Western
In 1865, three escaped Confederate POWs are coerced into joining an offshoot of Quantrill's raiders who are planning to rob a Union gold shipment concealed in a civilian wagon train going from Santa Fe to St. Louis.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman Jr.
Votes: 763
82. Gambling Lady (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Mystery
Lady Lee, gambler's daughter, plies her trade while pondering the proposal of a social-register suitor.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd
Votes: 1,137
83. Chance at Heaven (1933)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious mechanic is tempted to desert his wonderful girlfriend when a silly but rich debutante falls for him.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marian Nixon, Andy Devine
Votes: 669
84. The Jazz Age (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Steve's father into supporting an illegal contract in city affairs.
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 27
85. Ramrod (1947)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Romance, Western
Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,839
86. Buffalo Bill (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western
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.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,696
87. Espionage Agent (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to root out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft
Votes: 464
88. Cry Blood, Apache (1970)
R | 82 min | Drama, Western
Gang of sadistic cowboys let nothing stand in their way in their search for gold.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Jody McCrea, Marie Gahva, Dan Kemp, Robert Tessier
Votes: 685
89. The First Texan (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Biography, History, Western
Eastern lawyer Sam Houston moves to Texas. At the request of President Jackson, he leads the Texan independence movement and wins the decisive battle against the Mexican army to gain Texas independence.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford
Votes: 596
90. Wells Fargo (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, History, Western
The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 637
91. Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stage line agent investigates a series of robberies by taking the job of a deputy sheriff in a border Arizona town.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards
Votes: 729
92. Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Albert Dekker
Votes: 97
93. Colorado Territory (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Western
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull
Votes: 3,158
94. Three Blind Mice (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 401
95. Woman Chases Man (1937)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
Former millionaire B.J. Nolan is useless with money, having lost most of his fortune on crazy schemes. His son, Kenneth, has the opposite problem thanks to good sense and a large ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Charles Winninger, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 478
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