John Sturges

John Sturges

1910-01-03 Oak Park, Illinois, USA 52 Credits

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).

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Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie

Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

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

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

2015

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

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

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986

as Self

8.0
Acting

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

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

Director

6.6
Directing

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

McQ

1974

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Chino

Chino

1973

Director, Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

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

Joe Kidd

1972

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Marooned

1969

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Ice Station Zebra

1968

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Hour of the Gun

1967

Director, Producer

6.4
Directing Producing

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

The Hallelujah Trail

1965

Director, Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

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

The Satan Bug

1965

Director, Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

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

The Great Escape

1963

Producer, Director

7.9
Producing Directing

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

A Girl Named Tamiko

1962

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Sergeants 3

1962

Director

5.4
Directing

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

By Love Possessed

By Love Possessed

1961

Director

4.9
Directing

An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

1960

Director, Producer

7.5
Directing Producing

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Never So Few

Never So Few

1959

Director

5.4
Directing

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959

Director

7.1
Directing

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

The Old Man and the Sea

1958

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Law and Jake Wade

1958

Director

6.6
Directing

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

Saddle the Wind

1958

Other

6.5

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

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Backlash

1956

Director

6.4
Directing

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

The Scarlet Coat

1955

Director

6.4
Directing

An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

Underwater!

Underwater!

1955

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955

Director

7.3
Directing

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

Escape from Fort Bravo

1953

Director

6.2
Directing

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

Fast Company

Fast Company

1953

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Jeopardy

1953

Director

6.6
Directing

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

The Girl in White

1952

Director

6.7
Directing

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

It's a Big Country

1951

Director

5.3
Directing

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

The People Against O'Hara

1951

Director

5.7
Directing

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Kind Lady

Kind Lady

1951

Director

7.0
Directing

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

The Magnificent Yankee

1950

Director

5.4
Directing

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Right Cross

Right Cross

1950

Director

6.6
Directing

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

Mystery Street

Mystery Street

1950

Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Capture

1950

Director

6.1
Directing

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

The Walking Hills

The Walking Hills

1949

Director

6.0
Directing

A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

Best Man Wins

Best Man Wins

1948

Director

7.0
Directing

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

The Sign of the Ram

1948

Director

5.8
Directing

A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

1947

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Keeper of the Bees

Keeper of the Bees

1947

Director

Directing

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

For the Love of Rusty

1947

Director

Directing

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

Alias Mr. Twilight

1946

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Five Came Back: The Reference Films

1946

Director

Directing

Includes 12 World War II-era propaganda films.

Shadowed

Shadowed

1946

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Man Who Dared

1946

Director

3.7
Directing

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

Syncopation

1942

Editor

6.2

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

Scattergood Meets Broadway

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

Tom, Dick and Harry

1941

Editor

5.6

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

They Knew What They Wanted

1940

Editor

5.5

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...