74 years ago:
Colorado Territory (US)
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
1949-06-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28484
#ColoradoTerritory #RaoulWalsh #JoelMcCrea #VirginiaMayo #DorothyMalone #Western #Movies

77 years ago:
The Virginian (US)
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds hims...
1946-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/121230
#TheVirginian #JoelMcCrea #BrianDonlevy #TomTully #Paramount #Western #ClassicMovies

84 years ago:
Union Pacific (US)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Cam...
1939-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43837
#UnionPacific #CecilBDeMille #BarbaraStanwyck #JoelMcCrea #AkimTamiroff #AnneBauchens #WomenInFilm #Paramount

76 years ago:
Ramrod (US)
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey f...
1947-05-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/60541
#Ramrod #JoelMcCrea #VeronicaLake #DonDeFore #UnitedArtists #Western #ClassicMovies

81 years ago:
The Great Man's Lady (US)
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impul...
1942-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/97815
#TheGreatMansLady #BarbaraStanwyck #JoelMcCrea #BrianDonlevy #Paramount #Western #ClassicMovies

The Common Law is a 1931 romance and it's very pre-code - Constance Bennett is a model who poses nude for artist Joel McCrea and starts sleeping with him, and she's also a kept woman. And there's a nude scene. It's a rather delightful romance.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-common-law-1931.html

#precodehollywood #precodemovies #precode #classicmovies #classicmovie #1930smovie #goldenagehollywood #ConstanceBennett #JoelMcCrea

79 years ago:
Buffalo Bill (US)
Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
1944-04-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43499
#BuffaloBill #JoelMcCrea #MaureenOHara #LindaDarnell #20thCenturyFox #Western #ClassicFilm

47 years ago:
Mustang Country
A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.
1976-03-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/223793
#MustangCountry #JohnCChampion #JoelMcCrea #RobertFuller #PatrickWayne #Western #ClassicFilm

91 years ago:
The Lost Squadron (US)
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
1932-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/98398
#TheLostSquadron #GeorgeArchainbaud #MaryAstor #JoelMcCrea #ErichvonStroheim #RKO #PreCode #Movies

89 years ago:
Gambling Lady (US)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling o...
1934-03-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/152986
#GamblingLady #ArchieMayo #BarbaraStanwyck #JoelMcCrea #PatOBrien #ClassicFilm

92 years ago:
Kept Husbands (US)
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
1931-02-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/106605
#KeptHusbands #LloydBacon #JoelMcCrea #RKO #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film