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1	The Magnificent Seven (1960) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (later immortalized as the "Marlboro Man" leitmotif) blasts ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.65!
2	The Great Escape (1963) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, James Coburn The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.85!
3	The Old Man and the Sea (1958) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Donald Diamond, Don Blackman Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to cinematize Hemingway's tight little character study. Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore. Tracy's tiny boat is besieged by sharks ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £10.92!
4	The Hallelujah Trail (1965) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily await the precious booze, Gearhardt must fend off ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.05!
5	Joe Kidd (1972) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia In John Sturges' Americanized version of Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name films, Clint Eastwood is Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the poor off land that rightfully ... see all copies from £5.23! new only from £6.81!
6	Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named ... see all copies from £3.30! new only from £10.39!
7	The Eagle Has Landed (1976) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk, the Germans plan to kidnap him. Heinrich Himmler ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.10!
8	Ice Station Zebra (1968) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish , commanded by Cmdr. James ... see all copies from £7.20! new only from £7.20!
9	Never So Few (1959) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an American Captain stationed with his Allied command ... see all copies from £3.38! new only from £3.41!
10	The Satan Bug (1965) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner Adapted from an Alistair MacLean novel, The Satan Bug is one of the best efforts in the "deadly virus at large" genre. Insane scientist Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart) steals several vials containing a lethal germ culture from a government lab. Hoffman has been unhinged by the notion of the government playing God and now it's his turn to do the ... see all copies from £14.99!
11 view cover	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland It's one of the sad details of John Sturges' life that he never thought much of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Perhaps he just resented the fact that it was a more popular and successful film than Hour of the Gun, the film account of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday's friendship that he produced as well as directed a decade later. Sturges always ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.05!
12 view cover	Marooned (1969) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant In this tense and suspenseful science fiction thriller, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who monitors the space mission of three astronauts. Buzz (Gene Hackman), Jim (Richard Crenna) and Clayton (James Franciscus) have their lives put in jeopardy when the oxygen supply in the space capsule drops. Ted Dougherty (David ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £8.37!
13 view cover	McQ (1974) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Dick Friel, John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, Clu Gulager Undoubtedly having second thoughts after turning down Dirty Harry, John Wayne showed up in 1974 in his own "maverick cop" adventure, McQ. Wayne, playing McQ, a veteran detective, turns in his badge when he's officially denied the opportunity of clearing the name of his late best friend, who has been posthumously accused of drug pushing. ... see all copies from £3.17! new only from £5.92!
14 view cover	Chino (1973) more movies like this directed by Duilio Coletti, John Sturges featuring Charles Bronson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten The US title of this Italian-Spanish-French coproduction is Chino, in deference to the character played by star Charles Bronson. Having long suffered the stigma of being part-Indian, New Mexico horse breeder Chino Valdez (Bronson) wants nothing more than to be left alone with his beloved horses. Even so, Chino opens his heart and his home to ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £6.83!
15 view cover	Hour of the Gun (1967) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James Garner) moral decline from a lawman with high ideals to a mean-spirited vigilante bent on personal ... see all copies from £3.45! new only from £5.37!
16 view cover	Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest, William Campbell A nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco colors (forerunner of Eastmancolor). After ruthlessly dragging an escaped prisoner through the Arizona desert, Union Army Captain Roper (William Holden) suffers rebuke from both the rebel prisoners and his commanding officer ... see all copies from £5.98! new only from £6.68!
17 view cover	Last Train From Gun Hill (1959) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), the town marshal, has only two clues to their identity, a fancy saddle with the initials "C.B." that one of the men left behind, and the fact that his wife cut one of the two men deep ... see all copies from £4.75! new only from £6.62!
18 view cover	The Law and Jake Wade (1958) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens, Robert Middleton, Henry Silva Although reformed and a town marshal Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) has one thing more to do before he can settle down and marry Peggy Carter (Patricia Owens): spring former comrade-in-arms Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark) from jail. Clint had done the same for Jake way back and the latter now considers the score settled. But Clint wants the loot from ... see all copies from £6.72! new only from £6.72!
19 view cover	The Capture (1950) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into public domain. American oil man Lew Ayres kills a coworker whom he suspects of robbery. Thinking it over, Ayres wonders whether or not the man was innocent. He seeks out his victim's widow, played by Teresa Wright. They fall ... see all copies from £4.05! new only from £4.49!
20 view cover	Thunderbolt (1945) more movies like this directed by John Sturges, William Wyler Filmed in Technicolor, Thunderbolt was the last of Major William Wyler's wartime directorial efforts on behalf of the US Army Air Corps. As in his previous WW2 documentaries, Wyler himself participated in the mission that he depicts herein on film. The title refers to the huge bombers used by the Corsica-based 57th fighter group. The film ... see all copies from £25.26!
21 view cover	The Magnificent Yankee (1950) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Philip Ober, Ian Wolfe, Eduard Franz Louis Calhern repeats his Broadway role as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in this 1950 cinemazation of Emmet Lavery's stage play The Magnificent Yankee. The film is for the most part confined to the Holmes home in Washington, where the good gray judge parries affectionately with his level-headed wife Fanny (Ann Harding). A steady stream of ... see all copies from £68.96! new only from £68.96!
22 view cover	Sergeants 3 (1962) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop The 1939 adventure classic Gunga Din is transferred from British India to the American West, courtesy of Frank Sinatra's "Clan." Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford play three cavalry officers, always ready for a brawl but willing to die for each other if need be. Sammy Davis Jr. a cavalry bugler who has aspirations of being a combat soldier. ... see all copies from £8.33! new only from £8.33!

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