Biography
John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the abandoned production of 'Day of the Champion', a movie about Formula 1 which was set to film in 1966.

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans interweaves stunning newly discovered footage and voice recordings with original interviews. It is the true story of ...

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and profession...

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Director
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious sc...

McQ
1974
Director
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated dr...

Chino
1973
Director, Producer
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unw...

Joe Kidd
1972
Director
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them ...

Marooned
1969
Director
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. Af...

Ice Station Zebra
1968
Director
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arcti...

Hour of the Gun
1967
Director, Producer
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp start...

The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Director, Producer
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local ...

The Satan Bug
1965
Director, Producer
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b...

The Great Escape
1963
Producer, Director
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-secu...

A Girl Named Tamiko
1962
Director
A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the Uni...

Sergeants 3
1962
Director
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.

By Love Possessed
1961
Director
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.

The Magnificent Seven
1960
Director, Producer
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Never So Few
1959
Director
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
Director
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

The Old Man and the Sea
1958
Director
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it ...

The Law and Jake Wade
1958
Director
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, an...

Saddle the Wind
1958
Other
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the ...

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
Director
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr...

Backlash
1956
Director
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for ...

The Scarlet Coat
1955
Director
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

Underwater!
1955
Director
Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.

Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
Director
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, sec...

Escape from Fort Bravo
1953
Director
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

Fast Company
1953
Director
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer wh...

Jeopardy
1953
Director
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.

The Girl in White
1952
Director
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they...

It's a Big Country
1951
Director
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best director...

The People Against O'Hara
1951
Director
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Kind Lady
1951
Director
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One d...

The Magnificent Yankee
1950
Director
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Right Cross
1950
Director
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

Mystery Street
1950
Director
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with...

The Capture
1950
Director
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

The Walking Hills
1949
Director
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

Best Man Wins
1948
Director
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog ...

The Sign of the Ram
1948
Director
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

Thunderbolt
1947
Director
Documentary about the U.S. Air Force's P-47 Thunderbolt bomber's role in the Italian Campaign during WW2.

Keeper of the Bees
1947
Director
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie fa...

For the Love of Rusty
1947
Director
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterina...

Alias Mr. Twilight
1946
Director
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simpl...

Five Came Back: The Reference Films
1946
Director
Includes 12 World War II-era propaganda films.

Shadowed
1946
Director
Fred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some co...

The Man Who Dared
1946
Director
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based...

Syncopation
1942
Editor
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Scattergood Meets Broadway
1941
Editor
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York Cit...

Tom, Dick and Harry
1941
Editor
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. ...

They Knew What They Wanted
1940
Editor
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accept...