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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Director Preston Sturges
Writer Preston Sturges
Cast Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
Plot Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton
Cast Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Plot On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
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The Palm Beach Story (1942)
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Director Preston Sturges
Writer Preston Sturges, Ernst Laemmle
Cast Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor
Plot A 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.
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Ride the High Country (1962)
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Director Sam Peckinpah
Writer N.B. Stone Jr., Sam Peckinpah, William Roberts
Cast Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley
Plot An 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.
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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
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Director Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Writer James Ashmore Creelman, Richard Connell
Cast Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
Plot A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
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The More the Merrier (1943)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy
Cast Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Plot During 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.
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Dead End (1937)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman, Sidney Kingsley
Cast Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
Plot The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
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These Three (1936)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman
Cast Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Plot Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
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Union Pacific (1939)
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Director Cecil B. DeMille
Writer Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff
Plot In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
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Colorado Territory (1949)
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Director Raoul Walsh
Writer John Twist, Edmund H. North, W.R. Burnett
Cast Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
Plot Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.
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Stars in My Crown (1950)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Margaret Fitts, Joe David Brown
Cast Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
Plot In 1865, the small Southern town of Walesburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.
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Come and Get It (1936)
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Director Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson
Writer Edna Ferber, Jane Murfin, Jules Furthman
Cast Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer
Plot 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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Wichita (1955)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Daniel B. Ullman
Cast Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Plot In 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.
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Barbary Coast (1935)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov
Cast Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea
Plot Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
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Primrose Path (1940)
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Director Gregory La Cava
Writer Allan Scott, Gregory La Cava, Robert L. Buckner
Cast Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Plot A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but after he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
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Ramrod (1947)
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Director Andre De Toth
Writer Luke Short, Jack Moffitt, C. Graham Baker
Cast Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore
Plot Story about violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
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Buffalo Bill (1944)
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Director William A. Wellman
Writer a†neas MacKenzie, Clements Ripley, Cecile Kramer
Cast Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
Plot The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.
