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Joel McCrea has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Sullivan's Travels.
The Tale of Zatoichi
1962
Adventure · Action
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 and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
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 assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Dir. Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack · With Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
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 an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor
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 friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Dir. William Wyler · With Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
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