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1. Cry Blood, Apache (1970)
directed by Jack Starrett
featuring Joel McCrea
Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal ... More
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2. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
directed by Preston Sturges
featuring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest
As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not explained until the film ... More
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3. Ride the High Country (1962)
directed by Sam Peckinpah
featuring Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, James Drury
This Sam Peckinpah-directed feature outing was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; while McCrea would ... More
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4. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman
Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's Personal History before producer ... More
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5. Dead End (1937)
directed by William Wyler
featuring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor
Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's East River district. ... More
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6. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel
featuring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Steve Clemente
The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by producer Willis O'Brien ... More
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7. Primrose Path (1940)
directed by Gregory La Cava
featuring Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Miles Mander
In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen image by playing the ... More
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8. Come and Get It (1936)
directed by Howard Hawks, William Wyler
featuring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Andrea Leeds
Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the top, Arnold loses out on ... More
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9. Colorado Territory (1949)
directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer
Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama High Sierra. Raoul Walsh, ... More
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10. Stars in My Crown (1950)
directed by Jacques Tourneur
featuring Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Lewis Stone
Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a number of characters, it ... More
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11. Fort Massacre (1958)
directed by Joseph Newman
featuring Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, Susan Cabot, John Russell, Anthony Caruso
In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during an ambush. To save them, ... More
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12. Wichita (1955)
directed by Jacques Tourneur
featuring Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan
Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on the Wyatt Earp legend. ... More
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13. Trooper Hook (1957)
directed by Charles Marquis Warren
featuring Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews, John Dehner
Trooper Hook is played by Joel McCrea, but top billing goes to Barbara Stanwyck in this multilayered western. McCrea plays a Cavalry officer sent to ... More
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14. Stranger on Horseback (1955)
directed by Jacques Tourneur
featuring Joel McCrea, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, Nancy Gates
Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, Stranger on Horseback is one of Joel McCrea's shorter western vehicles, zipping merrily along at a mere 66 ... More
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15. Four Faces West (1948)
directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, Joseph Calleia, William Conrad
When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank robbery in order to come ... More
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16. Banjo on My Knee (1936)
directed by John Cromwell
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Helen Westley
This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck as it tells the tale of ... More
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17. Three Blind Mice (1938)
directed by William Seiter
featuring Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver
Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires" plotline. Three Kansas ... More
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18. The Silver Horde (1930)
directed by George Archainbaud
featuring Blanche Sweet, Evelyn Brent, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea
A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde was one of Joel McCrea's ... More
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19. The Oklahoman (1956)
directed by Francis D. Lyon
featuring Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott, Verna Felton
Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope. Having lost his wife in ... More
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20. Chance at Heaven (1933)
directed by William Seiter
featuring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, Marian Nixon, Andy Devine, Virginia Hammond
A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon. It is love at first ... More
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21. The First Texan (1956)
directed by Byron Haskin
featuring Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford, Abraham Sofaer
Cashing in on the popularity of TV's Davy Crockett and the jukebox favorite "Yellow Rose of Texas", Allied Artists came up with the CinemaScope ... More
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22. The Virginian (1946)
directed by Stuart Gilmore
featuring Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton, Fay Bainter
Owen Wister's 1902 novel was made into a movie several times, most notably in 1929, with Gary Cooper starring. This 1946 remake of the often-filmed ... More
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23. The Great Man's Lady (1942)
directed by William Wellman
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan
This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup, Barbara Stanwyck reminisces on her ... More
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24. Splendor (1935)
directed by Elliott Nugent
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Helen Westley, Billie Burke
This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea plays Brighton Lorrimore, ... More
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25. The More the Merrier (1943)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Ann Doran, Ann Savage, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett
To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in Washington DC. This is why ... More
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