John Sturges

The directorial debut of John Sturges. George Macready plays a crusading reporter who seizes an opportunity to expose the fallacy of circumstantial evidence, only to find himself convicted of murder. Top-billed Leslie Brooks plays his girlfriend, who endeared herself to this viewer by avowing her favorite meal as “steak with hash brown potatoes.”

A Massachusetts detective enlists a Harvard forensic specialist to crack the case of a skeleton on a Cape Cod beach.

When is a boxing movie not a boxing movie?

A fictionalized biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, beginning with his arrival in Washington D.C. to join the Supreme Court.

When a neighborhood kid is fingered for murder, aging alcoholic defense attorney Spencer Tracy comes out of semi-retirement to take the case, only to backslide under the pressure.

An eight-episode, star-studded portmanteau comprising comedic, dramatic, and documentary vignettes exploring American life.

A southern belle (Eleanor Parker) distracts a hardened Union soldier (William Holden) guarding a group of Confederate prisoners.

A one-armed stranger (Spencer Tracy) gets off a train in a dusty town and starts asking questions.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is an agreeable, if certainly fictional, take on the friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and their shootout with the Clanton gang.

U.S. Marshal Robert Taylor’s outlaw past catches up with him when former partner Richard Widmark forces him to lead the way to a stash of buried cash.

Never So Few is a frustratingly uneven film that should have been better.

Six are, indeed, magnificent, but Horst Buchholz seems plucked from a lesser movie.

In the post-Civil War west, three Cavalry sergeants (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford) battle a fanatical, murderous Indian tribe with the help of a trumpet-playing freed slave (Sammy Davis Jr.).

A group of Allied prisoners attempts to escape from a Luftwaffe P.O.W. camp during World War II.

A government agent must recover stolen vials of a deadly virus from a madman determined to rule the world.

Hour of the Gun picks up more or less where director John Sturges’ earlier film, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral leaves off, but it’s not really a sequel, per-se.

The commander (Rock Hudson) of an American sub takes on a British spy (Patrick McGoohan) and a Russian defector (Ernest Borgnine) and races the Soviets to a weather station at the North Pole.

A driver (Steve McQueen) coming off a nearly fatal injury, competes in the 24 hour endurance race, Le Mans.

In the waning days of World War II, a German paratrooper (Michael Caine) leads a team of soldiers and an undercover Irishman (Donald Sutherland) on a mission to kidnap Winston Churchill from the east coast of England.