Movies starring George Macready

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)

86 mins     Action , Adventure , Romance      

Picture the scene, a studio boss has become aware that they have languishing in a warehouse an expensive castle set and demand that they come up with a movie to utilize them. With Errol Flynn's excellent "The Adventures of Ro...

Gilda (1946)

110 mins     Drama, Romance      

I read a review the other day by someone who clearly was a fan of film-noir as they pointed out that the movie they were watching was full of the snappy dialogue you don't hear in movies anymore. They went on to bemoan this f...

Coroner Creek (1948)

90 mins     Western      

As Randolph Scott westerns go "Coroner Creek" is a bit of surprise. On one hand it has the look and familiarity of a bygone western with pretty women, nasty ranch hands, a sheriff in the pocket of a corrupt businessman and so...

The Black Arrow (1948)

76 mins     Action , Adventure      

The best thing about "The Black Arrow" is its creativity as it obviously takes the story of Robin Hood then having crafted an original spin-off story changes the names to try and separate itself from it further. And so whilst...

The Nevadan (1950)

81 mins     Western      

"The Nevadan" is one of those westerns where you get a feeling that the writer had a couple of good ideas up their sleeves but little else. And it means that whilst certain things in this western entertain the over all feelin...

Detective Story (1951)

103 mins     Crime, Drama      

When I saw "Detective Story" appear on the TV schedule I knew only one thing about it, that it starred Kirk Douglas and that was enough to make me want to watch. I am glad it was because "Detective Story" is a brilliantly, in...

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

83 mins     Western      

If you are looking for a western as a basis for judging all other westerns by then "The Stranger Wore a Gun" could be just that movie as it is as middle of the western road as you can get. There is nothing wrong with it but t...

Vera Cruz (1954)

94 mins     Western      

With a cast lead by Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster there is plenty which is great about 50s western "Vera Cruz" and by no means is it a run of the mill western. The basic storyline for a start which sees a hero and anti-hero ...

Thunder Over Arizona (1956)

70 mins     Western      

The ironically best thing about "Thunder Over Arizona" is that whilst it may be set in the lawless town of Tombstone there is no Wyatt Earp or Doc Holiday. Now that doesn't say much for the rest of this western which basis is...