Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known. He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Popularity : 6.771
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1905-11-05
  • Place of Birth : South Pasadena, California, USA
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Joel McCrea Movies

  • 1932
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    The Most Dangerous Game

    The Most Dangerous Game

    6.9 1932 HD

    When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive...

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  • 1942
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    The Palm Beach Story

    The Palm Beach Story

    7.024 1942 HD

    A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying...

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  • 1940
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    Foreign Correspondent

    Foreign Correspondent

    7 1940 HD

    American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

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  • 1937
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    Dead End

    Dead End

    6.952 1937 HD

    Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

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  • 1949
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    Colorado Territory

    Colorado Territory

    6.8 1949 HD

    After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

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  • 1944
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    The Great Moment

    The Great Moment

    5.8 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Ride the High Country

    Ride the High Country

    7 1962 HD

    An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old...

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  • 1947
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    Ramrod

    Ramrod

    6.4 1947 HD

    A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey,...

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  • 1944
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    Buffalo Bill

    Buffalo Bill

    5.7 1944 HD

    Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

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  • 1939
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    Union Pacific

    Union Pacific

    6.528 1939 HD

    One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

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  • 1945
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    The Unseen

    The Unseen

    4.5 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Sullivan's Travels

    Sullivan's Travels

    7.4 1941 HD

    Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise...

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  • 1948
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    Four Faces West

    Four Faces West

    5.6 1948 HD

    Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him...

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  • 1951
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    Hollywood Story

    Hollywood Story

    6.6 1951 HD

    A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot...

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  • 1940
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    Primrose Path

    Primrose Path

    6.5 1940 HD

    Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother....

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  • 1943
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    The More the Merrier

    The More the Merrier

    6.8 1943 HD

    It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment....

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  • 1936
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    These Three

    These Three

    7.211 1936 HD

    Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students...

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  • 1937
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    Internes Can't Take Money

    Internes Can't Take Money

    6.4 1937 HD

    Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up...

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  • 1932
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    Bird of Paradise

    Bird of Paradise

    5 1932 HD

    When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of...

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  • 1935
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    Barbary Coast

    Barbary Coast

    6.5 1935 HD

    Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy...

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  • 1936
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    Come and Get It

    Come and Get It

    6.736 1936 HD

    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.

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  • 1958
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    Fort Massacre

    Fort Massacre

    6 1958 HD

    New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to...

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  • 1959
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    The Gunfight at Dodge City

    The Gunfight at Dodge City

    5.6 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    The Great Man's Lady

    The Great Man's Lady

    6.273 1941 HD

    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)...

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  • 1936
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    Adventure in Manhattan

    Adventure in Manhattan

    5.8 1936 HD

    The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time...

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  • 1932
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    The Lost Squadron

    The Lost Squadron

    6.333 1932 HD

    When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a...

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  • 1931
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    Girls About Town

    Girls About Town

    6.4 1931 HD

    A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

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  • 1933
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    The Silver Cord

    The Silver Cord

    7.1 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.1 1946 HD

    Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...

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  • 1937
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    Woman Chases Man

    Woman Chases Man

    5.6 1937 HD

    A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

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  • 1931
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    Kept Husbands

    Kept Husbands

    5.4 1931 HD

    A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled...

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  • 1935
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    Private Worlds

    Private Worlds

    5.857 1935 HD

    At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr....

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  • 1931
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    Born to Love

    Born to Love

    5 1931 HD

    A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her...

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  • 1932
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    Rockabye

    Rockabye

    6.2 1932 HD

    A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

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  • 1957
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    The Oklahoman

    The Oklahoman

    5.6 1957 HD

    After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately,...

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  • 1939
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    Espionage Agent

    Espionage Agent

    5.9 1939 HD

    When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an...

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  • 1953
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    Rough Shoot

    Rough Shoot

    6.2 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Trooper Hook

    Trooper Hook

    6.6 1957 HD

    When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez...

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  • 1955
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    Stranger on Horseback

    Stranger on Horseback

    5.4 1955 HD

    A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the...

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  • 1950
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    Stars in My Crown

    Stars in My Crown

    6.9 1950 HD

    Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a...

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  • 1932
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    The Sport Parade

    The Sport Parade

    5.3 1932 HD

    Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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  • 1935
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    Splendor

    Splendor

    6.3 1935 HD

    When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and...

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  • 1934
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    The Richest Girl in the World

    The Richest Girl in the World

    5.615 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    Chance at Heaven

    Chance at Heaven

    5.6 1933 HD

    A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

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  • 1954
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    Border River

    Border River

    6.2 1954 HD

    A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in...

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  • 1937
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    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo

    5.1 1937 HD

    In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

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  • 1933
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    Bed of Roses

    Bed of Roses

    6.308 1933 HD

    A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.

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  • 1951
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    Cattle Drive

    Cattle Drive

    6.1 1951 HD

    The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and...

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  • 1934
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    Gambling Lady

    Gambling Lady

    6.3 1934 HD

    A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

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  • 1973
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    The Great American Cowboy

    The Great American Cowboy

    6 1973 HD

    The battle between two rodeo stars for the world championship: veteran Larry Mahan and newcomer Phil Lyne. Narrated by Cowboy Hall of Fame actor Joel...

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  • 1931
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    The Common Law

    The Common Law

    5.5 1931 HD

    When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

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  • 1957
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    The Tall Stranger

    The Tall Stranger

    6.6 1957 HD

    A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy...

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  • 1955
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    Wichita

    Wichita

    6.2 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Saddle Tramp

    Saddle Tramp

    6.3 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    6 1939 HD

    The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

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  • 1956
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    The First Texan

    The First Texan

    6.1 1956 HD

    After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any...

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  • 1950
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    The Outriders

    The Outriders

    6.9 1950 HD

    Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate...

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  • 1930
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    The Silver Horde

    The Silver Horde

    5.3 1930 HD

    A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

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  • 1936
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    Banjo on My Knee

    Banjo on My Knee

    5.8 1936 HD

    A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.

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  • 1949
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    South of St. Louis

    South of St. Louis

    5.6 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1927
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    The Fair Co-Ed

    The Fair Co-Ed

    5.5 1927 HD

    Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested...

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  • 1957
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    Gunsight Ridge

    Gunsight Ridge

    6 1957 HD

    An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.

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  • 1929
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    Dynamite

    Dynamite

    6.2 1929 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    The Lone Hand

    The Lone Hand

    5.2 1953 HD

    Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws. After the murder of a...

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  • 1952
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    The San Francisco Story

    The San Francisco Story

    4.8 1952 HD

    After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It...

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  • 1929
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    So This Is College

    So This Is College

    4.2 1929 HD

    Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

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  • 1933
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    One Man's Journey

    One Man's Journey

    7.1 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    He Married His Wife

    He Married His Wife

    5.1 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Frenchie

    Frenchie

    5.7 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Mustang Country

    Mustang Country

    4.7 1976 HD

    A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.

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  • 1958
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    Cattle Empire

    Cattle Empire

    6 1958 HD

    After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading...

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  • 1935
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    Woman Wanted

    Woman Wanted

    6.3 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    Business and Pleasure

    Business and Pleasure

    4 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    Three Blind Mice

    Three Blind Mice

    6 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1928
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    Dead Man's Curve

    Dead Man's Curve

    1 1928 HD

    A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an...

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  • 1961
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    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    3.3 1961 HD

    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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  • 1941
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    Reaching for the Sun

    Reaching for the Sun

    6 1941 HD

    Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

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  • 1933
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    Scarlet River

    Scarlet River

    4.5 1933 HD

    Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

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  • 1935
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    Our Little Girl

    Our Little Girl

    4.3 1935 HD

    Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become...

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  • 1936
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    Two in a Crowd

    Two in a Crowd

    1 1936 HD

    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....

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  • 1928
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    The Divine Lady

    The Divine Lady

    5.3 1928 HD

    Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

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  • 1938
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    Youth Takes a Fling

    Youth Takes a Fling

    1 1938 HD

    McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

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  • 1931
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    Once a Sinner

    Once a Sinner

    1 1931 HD

    As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who...

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  • 1929
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    The Single Standard

    The Single Standard

    6.2 1929 HD

    A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.

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  • 1954
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    Black Horse Canyon

    Black Horse Canyon

    5.9 1954 HD

    The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.

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  • 1997
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    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    7 1997 HD

    Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...

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  • 1930
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    Lightnin'

    Lightnin'

    3.7 1930 HD

    Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California...

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  • 1966
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    The Young Rounders

    The Young Rounders

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1940
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    Breakdowns of 1940

    Breakdowns of 1940

    4 1940 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

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  • 1970
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    Cry Blood Apache

    Cry Blood Apache

    2.5 1970 HD

    Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal...

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  • 1960
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    The Crowning Experience

    The Crowning Experience

    5 1960 HD

    Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many...

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  • 1970
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    Sioux Nation

    Sioux Nation

    8.5 1970 HD

    Joel McCrea stars in this unreleased Western from 1970.

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  • 1927
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    The Enemy

    The Enemy

    5.5 1927 HD

    Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted....

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  • 1934
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    Half a Sinner

    Half a Sinner

    1 1934 HD

    A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

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  • 2008
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    Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

    Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

    6.4 2008 HD

    A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

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  • 1985
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    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    5.583 1985 HD

    Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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  • 1943
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    Stars on Horseback

    Stars on Horseback

    1 1943 HD

    A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

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  • 2004
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    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    7.3 2004 HD

    An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the...

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  • 1982
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    Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars

    6.5 1982 HD

    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

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  • 1926
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    Torrent

    Torrent

    6.9 1926 HD

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  • 1923
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    Penrod and Sam

    Penrod and Sam

    6.5 1923 HD

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  • 1959
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    Wichita Town

    Wichita Town

    4.2 1959 HD

    Wichita Town is a half-hour western television series starring Joel McCrea, Jody McCrea, Carlos Romero, and George Neise that aired on NBC from...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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