Acting
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.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sun...
Wichita Town
Wichita Town is a half-hour western television series starring Joel McCrea, Jody McCrea, Carlos Romero, and Geo...
Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday Febr...
Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war...
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose geni...
Ride the High Country
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn'...
Dead End
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volat...
The Most Dangerous Game
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he fi...
Sullivan's Travels
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until...
Stranger on Horseback
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the ki...
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running...
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wild...
Colorado Territory
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Z...
Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His ski...
The Tall Stranger
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle...
The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to ra...
Buffalo Bill
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
The More the Merrier
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Conn...
The Oklahoman
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise...
Frenchie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who kille...
Espionage Agent
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic servi...
The Virginian
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Vir...
Hollywood Story
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murde...
Gunsight Ridge
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach ro...
Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an...
The Outriders
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall i...
Primrose Path
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger s...
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band...
Private Worlds
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken...
Internes Can't Take Money
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her ba...
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code i...
Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later become...
Ramrod
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to r...
The Great Moment
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the fo...