Word: mccrea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theoretically there's a moral running along somewhere in the movie. It is that behind the great man there stands a woman who spuss him on in his achievements. How Joel McCrea, the "great man" in this case, ever manages to get past first base ranks as the number one cinema mystery of the season. He gambles away his property, shoots his wife's best friend, disappears at the weirdest times, and manages to scare the daylights out of his wife when he is around...
Honest Judge Ferguson found Detroit's graft-ridden officialdom as helpful as a pair of handcuffs. County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea insisted that the smell in the police department was only an embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...
...Great Man's Lady (Paramount) was designed to give belated credit to the women who never get it: those who helped make their men great. Unfortunately, the great man (Joel McCrea) chosen for this bow to womankind wasn't worth the effort. His name is Hoyt, a romantic frontiersman of 1848 who dreams of building a great Midwestern city. His idealism persuades a Philadelphia Main Line girl (Barbara Stanwyck) to go West with him. Some 60 years later he is a dying U.S. Senator, silver rich. He had apparently got his city built (on land he owned...
Into the office strode handsome, hefty Captain John L. McCrea, the President's Naval aide. He handed the President a sheaf of papers. Franklin Roosevelt read the news: the great Battle of the Coral Sea had begun; the U.S. Navy had already sunk seven Japanese warships...
Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake; TIME...