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1. The Great Escape (1963)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, James Coburn
The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison ... More
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2. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to ... More
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3. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Donald Diamond, Don Blackman
Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to ... More
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4. McQ (1974)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Dick Friel, John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, Clu Gulager
Undoubtedly having second thoughts after turning down Dirty Harry, John Wayne showed up in 1974 in his own "maverick cop" adventure, McQ. Wayne, ... More
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5. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan
This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one ... More
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6. The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens, Robert Middleton, Henry Silva
Although reformed and a town marshal Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) has one thing more to do before he can settle down and marry Peggy Carter (Patricia ... More
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7. Last Train From Gun Hill (1959)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter
Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan ... More
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8. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland
Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was one of the most ... More
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9. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated ... More
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10. Never So Few (1959)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson
Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great ... More
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11. Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
directed by John Sturges
featuring William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest, William Campbell
A nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco colors (forerunner of ... More
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12. Marooned (1969)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant
In this tense and suspenseful science fiction thriller, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who monitors the space ... More
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13. Hour of the Gun (1967)
directed by John Sturges
featuring James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman
John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The ... More
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14. The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Philip Ober, Ian Wolfe, Eduard Franz
Louis Calhern repeats his Broadway role as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in this 1950 cinemazation of Emmet Lavery's stage play The Magnificent ... More
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15. The People Against O'Hara (1951)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Ciannelli
Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the previous day -- is shot to ... More
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16. The Satan Bug (1965)
directed by John Sturges
featuring George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner
Alarms start flashing all the way from California to Washington when Station 3, a top-secret, ultra-high-security research facility, is broken into - ... More
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17. By Love Possessed (1961)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, Jr., George Hamilton, Susan Kohner
There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of ... More
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18. The Scarlet Coat (1955)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anne Francis, George Sanders, Robert Douglas
The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably subtle menace by Robert ... More
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19. Sergeants 3 (1962)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
The 1939 adventure classic Gunga Din is transferred from British India to the American West, courtesy of Frank Sinatra's "Clan." Sinatra, Dean Martin ... More
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20. The Capture (1950)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt
Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into public domain. American ... More
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21. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence
John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high ... More
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22. Backlash (1956)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire, Barton MacLane
The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the big-budget western Backlash ... More
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23. Joe Kidd (1972)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia
In John Sturges'sAmericanized version of Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name films, Clint Eastwood is Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New ... More
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24. The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence
In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for ... More
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25. Thunderbolt (1945)
directed by John Sturges, William Wyler
Filmed in Technicolor, Thunderbolt was the last of Major William Wyler's wartime directorial efforts on behalf of the US Army Air Corps. As in his ... More
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