Joel Mccrea
1) Ramrod
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Connie Dickason has inherited a sheep ranch from her ex-husband and is determined to run the ranch with the help of her new Ramrod and his crew of anti-Ivey locals despite the opposition of Ivey and her father. The resulting bloody range war is much to the dismay of Dave, who wants to resolve Connie's problems with Ivey legally.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Folks in Walsburg may want to pay heed to the brace of pistols holstered onto Josiah Gray's hips. In time, they may want to pay even more heed to the Bible in his hand. Gray is the newly arrived parson in the woodsy post-Civil War Tennessee town. And the true test of his strength will come when, during his greatest and most dangerous challenge, he sets aside his six-shooters and relies on his faith.
3) Wichita
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this classic Western about Wyatt Earp, Joel McCrea accepts the dangerous job as law enforcement officer in the wild settlement of Wichita in 1874.
Publisher
Vci Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Circuit judge Richard Thorne comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds and discovers that it is under the feudal thumb of an oldline family headed by Josiah Bannerman. Despite opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman's spoiled son and defies the whole clan by seeing that justice is done. In doing so he wins the grudging respect of the old cattle baron, gains the love of the baron's niece, and awakens the sheriff to...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Forged in the fiery skies of World War I, a squadron of American fliers is connected by unbreakable bonds of loyalty, blood and grief. Going their separate ways after the war, these debonair daredevils of the air find civilian life somewhat lacking. Jobs, girls and even fortune have all been lost while they served the country. When one of them lands a gig as a stunt flyer in the suddenly booming motion-picture business of Hollywood and Burbank, it's...
Author
Language
English
Description
This original 1932 film is the uncut, restored version & contains some nudity. A young man (Joel McCrea) falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Island girl (Dolores Del Rio). They fall in love, but their trouble starts when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers that the local custom is to sacrifice a young woman to the volcanic gods. Lon Chaney Jr. is also in the cast.
9) Dead End
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
10) In the Turn
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary follows Crystal, a 10-year-old transgender girl growing up in rural Canada, as she navigates the difficult and complicated world that surrounds her. Tormented at school by teachers and peers alike, she faces daily assaults in the form of insults and physical altercations. The pain she endures at school takes a toll on not only her self-esteem, but also on the emotional stability of her family. After being denied the...
11) Barbary Coast
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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 San Francisco in the 1850s. **Academy Award** nominee.
12) Bird of paradise
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From legendary Oscar-winning director King Vidor (The crowd, Duel in the sun) comes an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia: Bird of paradise. Johnny (Joel McCrea) is an intrepid young sailor traveling the South Seas who falls in love with Luana (Dolores del Rio), the beautiful daughter of an island chief. But Luana is betrothed to a neighboring native prince, and is soon to be married. With little thought to the future, Johnny and Luana...
13) Come and Get It
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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. Winner of an **Academy Award**.
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 4
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
17) Union Pacific
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Butler, overseer of the Union Pacific's construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau, Jack Cordray and Dick Allen. Dick is a forrmer pal of Jeff's, but their relationship changes as they fight over the railroad and over Mollie Monahan, the railroad's spirited postmistress." -- Container.
18) Chance at heaven
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Blackstone 'Blacky' Gorman, rising service station owner, is blessed with the devotion of supremely sweet and noble Marje Harris, but he meets coquettish and silly debutante Glory Franklyn and, between Glory's charm and his social ambition, is snared into an upscale marriage that proves to have its downside
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.