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John Sturges has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Great Escape.
1956
Thriller · Drama
The Great Escape
1963 · Movie · Director
Top 1%MGM+ · Included
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959 · Movie · Director
Top 24%MGM+ · Included
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Movie · Director
Top 28%MGM+ · Included
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Movie · Director
Top 40%Prime Video · Included
Joe Kidd
1972 · Movie · Director
Top 66%AMC+ · Included
Marooned
1969 · Movie · Director
Top 69%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Dir. John Sturges · With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Dir. John Sturges · With Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Dir. John Sturges · With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.
Dir. John Sturges · With Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Earl Holliman
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Dir. John Sturges · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Dir. John Sturges · With Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
Dir. John Sturges · With Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
Dir. John Sturges · With Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Dir. John Sturges · With James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
Dir. John Sturges · With John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
Dir. John Sturges · With Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Dir. John Sturges · With Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen
