The 10 Best Movies Starring Joel McCrea
This list was made for movie lovers & McCrea fans. He is too underrated. He is the (California native) who became the All-American Guy! Also, thank goodness for FDR & Joel McCrea, Alan Ladd, Humphrey Bogart, et al.
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- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaVeronica LakeRobert WarwickHollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.Veronica Lake is an asset to this Preston Sturges' comedy/drama. But it is the understated performance by McCrea that is the heart of it all. Drew Barrymore said how deeply moved she is by this movie. I am also moved by this great film. Every serious movie lover ought to see it.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJoel McCreaLaraine DayHerbert MarshallOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London."Joel McCrea is the American Everyman as reporter Johnny Jones aka Huntley Haverstock. Hitchcock wanted us naive Americans to see the devious work being done in Europe. McCrea succeeds. He is aided well by George Sanders, Laraine Day, Albert Basserman, Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn."
- DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.Shining performance by young McCrea. He proved his great ability to become an ordinary/extraordinary character.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsJoel McCreaVera MilesLloyd BridgesIn 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.Two fine actors portrayed Wyatt Earp in 1955. First one was Joel McCrea. The second one was TV's Hugh O'Brian. Wichita was the first town to make Wyatt Earp into a Lawman. Dodge City came later. Then we all found out about Tombstone, Arizona.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsClaudette ColbertJoel McCreaMary AstorA 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.Another from Preston Sturges
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJoel McCreaRandolph ScottMariette HartleyAn 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.A Joel McCrea western classic. Peckinpah directed!
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaAkim TamiroffIn 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck--what else is there to say with these two on the great Union Pacific Railroad together!
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsJean ArthurJoel McCreaCharles CoburnDuring 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.World War II housing shortage makes for a funny threesome in a cramped apartment in Washington, D.C.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsJoel McCreaGail RussellHerbert MarshallA 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.Good acting from McCrea. But with Gail Russell who had debuted in The Uninvited (1944) was this an attempt to boost Russell's career with another ghost story?
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaLloyd NolanIn his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.Stanwyck gives young doctor her most dazzling look and a sob story. He can't take her money but he can have her love--for awhile. A really good movie. It's McCrea and Stanwyck, one of the best teams of the 1930's.
- DirectorTheodore MelfiStarsBill MurrayMelissa McCarthyNaomi WattsA young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.