Joel McCrea
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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...
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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.
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"When five sadistic cowboys stumble on a small Apache camp and discover a vein of gold ore, they resort to murder, killing the Apaches, men, women, and children, leaving only one survivor. The men deep the young woman alive in hopes she will lead them to more gold. Only Pitcalin among the five men shows any remorse or kindness to the prisoner. When an Apache brave discovers the massacre and buries the dead, he begins to track the murderers and...
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Criterion collection volume 118
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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.