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Internes Can't Take Money
Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, Internes Can't Take Money launched a series of movies and TV programs featuring the famous Dr. Kildare character. Young Dr. Jimmie Kildare (McCrea), interning at a clinic, falls for his patient Janet Haley (Stanwyck). The feeling is mutual but Janet has a secret she will not divulge: She is the widow of a bank robber who hid their daughter before he died and she is desperately trying to find the little girl. She will use anyone - including Dr. Kildare...
The Great Man's Lady
Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck stars as a 109-year-old woman who recounts the story of her eventful life in The Great Man's Lady . After Hoyt City dedicates a statue to its founder Ethan Hoyt (Joel McCrea), the woman who inspired his achievement, Hanna Sempler (Stanwyck), tells their story to a young biographer. She begins with their elopement in 1848 when she was a headstrong girl of 16 and Ethan was an idealist yearning to build a city in the West. Their future was fraught with difficulties,...
Union Pacific
Barbara Stanwyk and Joel McCrea star in director Cecil B. DeMille’s explosive western, Union Pacific , about the struggle to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific’s construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston). Dick is a former pal of Jeff’s, but their relationship changes as they fight over the...
Cattle Drive
One of Joel McCrea's personal favorites, Cattle Drive is an atmospheric frontier tale variation on the adventure story, Captains Courageous. Chester Graham, Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled teenage son of a railroad tycoon, gets lost in the desert but is rescued by Dan Matthews (McCrea), a cattle herder on his way to San Diego. As they head toward civilization together, the young greenhorn soon gets an education in the value of hard work and survival tactics from his experienced guide.
Mustang Country
Starring Joel McCrea as an ex-rodeo star turned sheep farmer, MustangCountry is an exciting family adventure set in the wilderness. With the help of an orphaned Native American teen (Nika Mina), a mare called Rosie and a scene-stealing dog named Luke, Dan (McCrea) tracks down a magnificent wild black stallion along the Canadian border circa 1925. Filmed on location in the Banff National Park near Alberta, Canada, and co-starring Patrick Wayne (son of John) and Robert Fuller, this appealing film...
Wells Fargo
Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director, Frank Lloyd, delivers action, excitement and drama in the sweeping Western, Wells Fargo . Joel McCrea stars ass Ramsay Mackay, a dedicated driver for the newly launched Wells, Fargo & Company. On a rush delivery from Buffalo to New York City, he rescues and promptly falls in love with Justine Pryor (Frances Dee). Although her parents want her to marry her childhood sweetheart, Justine eventually says "I do" to Ramsay and the two set out...
Border River
Joel McCrea stars with Yvonne DeCarlo in the Civil War drama Border River . Desperately hoping to turn the tide of the war, Confederate soldier Clete Mattson (McCrea) steals $2 Million in gold bars from the Union and heads for the Mexican border town of Zona Libre, where he hopes to buy munitions and supplies. With Yankee troops in hot pursuit, Clete soon discovers he might be in a worse situation with a greedy despot (Pedro Armendariz), crooked businessmen and other shady characters intent on...
The Palm Beach Story
The captivating Claudette Colbert stars as the frustrated wife of struggling engineer Joel McCrea. In a seemingly amicable agreement, Colbert hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train to Florida, Colbert hides out in a sleeping car where she meets, unbeknownst to her, one of the world's richest men (Rudy Vallee) who is relentless in his attempt to romance her. Upon their arrival in Palm Beach, Colbert is met by her...
The Virginian (1946)
Based on the best-selling love story of the West, The Virginian stars Joel McCrea as a local ranch hand who risks losing his best friend and the woman he loves when forced into a showdown with ruthless cattle thieves. When Molly Wood (Barbara Britton), a well-educated Easterner, arrives in a small Wyoming town to be the new schoolteacher, the Virginian (McCrea) and his best friend, Steve (Sonny Tufts), immediately vie for her affection. Against the warnings of his friend, Steve falls in with...
Sullivan's Travels
Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from Oscar®-winning writer-director Preston Sturges. McCrea plays successful Hollywood director John L. Sullivan, an idealist who believes you can't accurately direct a screen tragedy unless you live it first. Disguising himself as a bum, Sullivan sets off to see America from the bottom up. Along the way he befriends a beautiful but cynical stray (Veronica Lake), and learns about the cruelty of life...