Joel McCrea — Actor (29)
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The Richest Girl in the World (1934) IMDb TMDB
The Richest Girl in the World
director: William A. Seiter actor: Miriam Hopkins / Joel McCrea …
other title: La ragazza più ricca del mondo / La venus de oro
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
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The Great Moment (1944) IMDb TMDB
The Great Moment
director: Preston Sturges actor: Joel McCrea / Betty Field …
other title: El gran momento
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.
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Framed (1930) IMDb TMDB
Framed
director: George Archainbaud actor: Evelyn Brent / Regis Toomey …
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
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The Unseen (1945) IMDb TMDB
The Unseen
director: Lewis Allen actor: Joel McCrea / Gail Russell …
other title: Il fantasma / Der Tod wohnt nebenan …
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Gunfight at Dodge City
director: Joseph M. Newman actor: Joel McCrea / Julie Adams …
other title: Duello alla pistola / Drauf und dran …
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.
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The San Francisco Story (1952) IMDb TMDB
The San Francisco Story
director: Robert Parrish actor: Joel McCrea / Yvonne De Carlo …
other title: La peccatrice di San Francisco / Menschenjagd in San Francisco …
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan, that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!
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Woman Wanted (1935) IMDb TMDB
Woman Wanted
director: George B. Seitz actor: Maureen O'Sullivan / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'avventura di Anna Gray / La fugitiva
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Saddle Tramp (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Saddle Tramp
director: Hugo Fregonese actor: Joel McCrea / Wanda Hendrix …
other title: Vagabondo a cavallo / Ohne Gesetz …
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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Rough Shoot (1953) IMDb TMDB
Rough Shoot
director: Robert Parrish actor: Joel McCrea / Evelyn Keyes …
other title: Servizio segreto / Schuss im Dunkel …
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
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Trooper Hook (1957) IMDb TMDB
Trooper Hook
director: Charles Marquis Warren actor: Joel McCrea / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Schiava degli Apaches / Vingança no coração …
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.
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The Great Man's Lady (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Great Man's Lady
director: William A. Wellman actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'ispiratrice / Una gran señora …
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Gambling Lady (1934) IMDb TMDB
Gambling Lady
director: Archie Mayo actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'ultima carta / Franc jeu …
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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Internes Can't Take Money (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Internes Can't Take Money
director: Alfred Santell actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La figlia perduta / La Loi du milieu …
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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South of St. Louis (1949) IMDb TMDB
South of St. Louis
director: Ray Enright actor: Joel McCrea / Alexis Smith …
other title: Il ranch delle tre campane / Mercadores de Intrigas …
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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Union Pacific (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Union Pacific
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La via dei giganti / Pacific Express …
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Wichita (1955) IMDb TMDB
Wichita
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Joel McCrea / Vera Miles …
other title: Un Jeu risqué / Wichita, ciudad infernal
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.