by Marc Eliot
31. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). Liberty Films (distributed by RKO). Directed by Frank Capra. Produced by Frank Capra. Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra (uncredited), Michael Wilson, Clifford Odets, Jo Swerling (from the short story “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern). Principal cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H. B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds, Todd Karns, Mary Treen, Virginia Patton, Charles Williams, Sarah Edwards, Bill Edmunds, Lillian Randolph, Argentina Brunetti, Karolyn Grimes.
32. MAGIC TOWN (1947). Robert Riskin Productions (distributed by RKO). Directed by William A. Wellman. Produced by Robert Riskin. Screenplay by Robert Riskin (from a screen story by Robert Riskin and Joseph Krumgold). Principal cast: James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Wallace Ford, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran, Donald Meek, E. J. Ballantine, Ann Shoemaker, Mickey Kuhn, Howard Freeman, Harry Holman, Mickey Roth, Mary Currier, George Irving, Selmer Jackson, Robert Dudley, Julia Dean.
33. CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Produced by Otto Lang. Screenplay by Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler (from newspaper articles by James P. McGuire adapted by Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds). Principal cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, Kasia Orzazewski, Joanne De Bergh, Howard Smith, Paul Harvey, John McIntire, Moroni Olsen, George Tyne, Richard Bishop, Otto Waldis, Michael Chapin, E. G. Marshall, John Bleifer.
34. ON OUR MERRY WAY (1948). Aka A Miracle Can Happen. Miracle Productions. Directed by King Vidor, Leslie Fenton (uncredited), John Huston, and George Stevens (the segment in which James Stewart appears). Produced by Burgess Meredith. Screenplay by Laurence Stallings, Lou Breslow, John O’Hara (the segment in which James Stewart appears) (from a story by Arch Oboler). Principal cast (in the segment in which James Stewart appears): James Stewart, Burgess Meredith, Henry Fonda, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dorothy Ford, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Harry James.
35. ROPE (1948). Warner Bros. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein (Transatlantic Pictures). Screenplay by Arthur Laurents, Ben Hecht (uncredited, adapted by Hume Cronyn from the play by Patrick Hamilton). Principal cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick, Dick Hogan.
36. YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY (1948). Universal. Directed by H. C. Potter. Produced by Karl Tunberg. Screenplay by Karl Tunberg (from a serialized magazine story by Robert Carson). Principal cast: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker, Percy Kilbride, Porter Hall, Marcy McGuire, Arthur Walsh, Paul Cavanagh, William Bakewell, Halliwell Hobbes, Stanley Prager, Mary Forbes, Edith Evanson, Peter Roman, Houseley Stevenson.
37. THE STRATTON STORY (1949). MGM. Directed by Sam Wood. Produced by Jack Cummings. Screenplay by Douglas Morrow, Guy Trosper (uncredited), George Wells (from a screen story by Douglas Morrow). Principal cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams, Bruce Cowling, Gene Bearden, Bill Dickey, Jimmy Dykes, Cliff Clark, Mary Lawrence, Dean White, Robert Gist.
38. MALAYA (1949). Released in Britain as East of the Rising Sun. MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe. Produced by Edwin H. Knopf. Screenplay by Frank Fenton (from an original story by Manchester Boddy). Principal cast: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Lionel Barrymore, Gilbert Roland, Roland Winters, Richard Loo, Lester Matthews, Ian MacDonald, Charles Meredith, James Todd, Paul Kruger, Anna Q. Nilsson.
39. WINCHESTER ’73 (1950). Universal-International. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Screenplay by Robert L. Richards, Borden Chase (from a story by Stuart N. Lake). Principal cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake, John McIntire, Will Geer, Jay C. Flippen, Rock Hudson, John Alexander, Steve Brodie, James Millican, Abner Biberman, Tony Curtis (as Anthony Curtis), James Best, Gregg Martell.
40. BROKEN ARROW (1950). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Delmer Daves. Produced by Julian Blaustein. Screenplay by Albert Maltz, fronted by Michael Blankfort (from the novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold). Principal cast: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer, Joyce MacKenzie, Arthur Hunnicutt, Raymond Bramley, Jay Silverheels, Argentina Brunetti, Jack Lee, Robert Adler, Harry Carter, Robert Griffin, Billy Wilkerson, Mickey Kuhn.
41. THE JACKPOT (1950). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Walter Lang. Produced by Samuel G. Engel. Screenplay by Phoebe and Henry Ephron (from a magazine article by John McNulty). Principal cast: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Alan Mowbray, Patricia Medina, Natalie Wood, Tommy Rettig, Robert Gist, Lyle Talbot, Charles Tannen, Bigelow Sayre, Dick Cogan, Jewel Rose, Eddie Firestone, Estelle Etterre.
42. HARVEY (1950). Universal-International. Directed by Henry Koster. Produced by John Beck. Screenplay by Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney, and Myles Connolly (from the original Broadway play by Mary Chase). Principal cast: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne, Jesse White, William Lynn, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Grace Mills, Clem Bevans, Ida Moore, Dick Wessel.
43. NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Henry Koster. Produced by Louis D. Lighton. Screenplay by R. C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard, Alec Coppel (from the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute). Principal cast: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Squire, Jill Clifford, Niall MacGinnis, Kenneth More, Wilfred Hyde-White, Maurice Denham, David Hutcheson, Hugh Wakefield.
44. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952). Paramount. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille. Screenplay by Fredric M. Frank, Barré Lyndon, Theodore St. John, and Frank Cavett. Principal cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Henry Wilcoxon, Emmett Kelly, Lyle Bettger, Lawrence Tierney, John Kellogg, John Ridgely, Frank Wilcox, Bob Carson.
45. BEND OF THE RIVER (1952). Released in Great Britain as Where the River Bends (to avoid confusion with The End of the River). Universal-International. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Screenplay by Borden Chase (from the novel Bend of the River by Bill Gulick). Principal cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson, Jay C. Flippen, Harry Morgan, Chubby Johnson, Howard Petrie, Royal Dano, Stepin Fetchit, Jack Lambert, Frank Ferguson, Frances Bavier, Cliff Lyons, Jennings Miles, Frank Chase, Lillian Randolph.
46. CARBINE WILLIAMS (1952). MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe. Produced by Armand Deutsch. Screenplay by Art Cohn (from a nonfiction magazine article by David Marshall Williams). Principal cast: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Stewart, Otto Hulett, Rhys Williams, Herbert Heyes, James Arness, Porter Hall, Fay Roope, Ralph Dumke, Leif Erickson, Henry Corden, Howard Petrie, Frank Richards, Stuart Randall, Dan Riss, Bobby Hyatt, Willis Bouchey.
47. THE NAKED SPUR (1953). MGM. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by William H. Wright. Screenplay by Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom. Principal cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell.
48. THUNDER BAY (1953). Universal-International. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Screenplay by Gil Doud, John Michael Hayes (from a screen story by John Michael Hayes based on an idea by George W. George and George F. Slavin). Principal cast: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Marcia Henderson, Robert Monet, Jay C. Flippen, Antonio Moreno, Harry Morgan, Fortunio Bonanova, Mario Siletti, Antonio Filauri.
49. THE GLENN MILLER STORY (1953). Universal-International. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Screenplay by Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney. Principal cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Charles Drake, Harry Morgan (as Henry Morgan), George Tobias, Barton MacLane, Sig Ruman, Irving Bacon, James Bell, Kathleen Lockhart, Katharine Warren, Dayton Lumm
is, Marion Ross, Phil Garris, Deborah Sydes, Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Ben Pollack, the Modernaires, and the Archie Savage Dancers.
50. REAR WINDOW (1954). Paramount. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by John Michael Hayes (from the short story by Cornell Woolrich). Principal cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, Sara Berner, Frank Cady, Jesslyn Fax, Rand Harper, Irene Winston, Havis Davenport.
51. THE FAR COUNTRY (1955). Universal-International. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Written by Borden Chase. Principal cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire, Jay C. Flippen, Harry Morgan, Steve Brodie, Connie Gilchrist, Robert Wilke, Chubby Johnson, Royal Dano, Jack Elam, Kathleen Freeman, Guy Wilkerson, Allan Ray, Eddy Waller, Eugene Borden, John Doucette, Robert Foulk, Paul Bryar.
52. STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (1955). Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by Samuel J. Briskin. Screenplay by Valentine Davies, Beirne Lay Jr. (from a screen story by Beirne Lay Jr.). Principal cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol, Bruce Bennett, Jay C. Flippen, James Millican, James Bell, Richard Shannon, Rosemary DeCamp, John McKee, Don Haggerty.
53. THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (1955). Columbia. Directed by Anthony Mann. Produced by William Goetz. Screenplay by Philip Yordan, Frank Burt (from the magazine serialization of the novel by Thomas T. Flynn). Principal cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O’Donnell, Alex Nicol, Aline MacMahon, Wallace Ford, Jack Elam, John War Eagle, James Millican, Gregg Barton, Boyd Stockman, Frank DeKova.
54. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956). Paramount. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, Angus McPhail (from a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham-Lewis—original version made by Hitchcock in 1934, with Leslie Banks in the Stewart role). Principal cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gelin, Mogens Wieth, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke, Christopher Olsen, Reggie Nalder, Noel Willman, Richard Wattis, Alix Talton, Yves Brainville, Carolyn Jones.
55. THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (1957). Warner Bros. Directed by Billy Wilder. Produced by Leland Hayward. Screenplay by Billy Wilder, Wendell Mayes (adaptation with Charles Lederer from the original book by Charles A. Lindbergh). Principal cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Robert Cornthwaite, Sheila Bond, Marc Connelly, Arthur Space, Harlan Warde, Dabbs Greer, Paul Birch, David Orrick, Robert Burton, James Robertson, Maurice Manson, James O’Rear, David McMahon, Griff Barnett.
56. NIGHT PASSAGE (1957). Universal. Directed by James Neilson. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Screenplay by Borden Chase (from the story by Norman A. Fox). Principal cast: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster, Elaine Stewart, Brandon de Wilde, Jay C. Flippen, Herbert Anderson, Robert J. Wilke, Hugh Beaumont, Jack Elam, Tommy Cook, Paul Fix, Olive Carey, James Flavin, Donald Curtis, Ellen Corby.
57. VERTIGO (1958). Paramount. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor (from the novel D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac). Principal cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Paul Bryar, Margaret Brayton, William Remick, Julian Petruzzi, Sara Taft, Fred Graham.
58. BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958). Columbia. Directed by Richard Quine. Produced by Julian Blaustein. Screenplay by Daniel Taradash (from the play by John Van Druten). Principal cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester, Janice Rule, Philippe Clay, Bek Nelson, Howard McNear.
59. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959). Columbia. Directed by Otto Preminger. Produced by Otto Preminger (Carlyle Productions). Screenplay by Wendell Mayes (from the novel by Robert Traver, pen name for Justice John D. Voelker). Principal cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, Judge Joseph N. Welch, Brooks West, George C. Scott, Murray Hamilton, Orson Bean, Alexander Campbell, Joseph Kearns, Russ Brown, Howard McNear, Ned Wever, Jimmy Conlin, Ken Lynch.
60. THE FBI STORY (1959). Warner Bros. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Produced by Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay by Richard L. Breen, John Twist (from the book by Don Whitehead). Principal cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams, Diane Jergens, Jean Willes, Joyce Taylor, Victor Millan, Parley Baer, Fay Roope, Ed Prentiss, Robert Gist, Buzz Martin, Kenneth Mayer, Paul Genge, Ann Doran, Forrest Taylor, Scott Peters, William Phipps.
61. THE MOUNTAIN ROAD (1960). Columbia. Directed by Daniel Mann. Produced by William Goetz. Screenplay by Alfred Hayes (from the novel by Theodore H. White). Principal cast: James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan, Frank Silvera, James Best, Rudy Bond, Mike Kellin, Frank Maxwell, Eddie Firestone, Leo Chen, Alan Baxter, Bill Quinn, Peter Chong, P. C. Lee.
62. TWO RODE TOGETHER (1961). Columbia. Directed by John Ford. Produced by Stan Shpetner (John Ford Productions). Screenplay by Frank Nugent (from the magazine serialization and novel Comanche Captives by Will Cook). Principal cast: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devine, John McIntire, Paul Birch, Willis Bouchey, Henry Brandon, Harry Carey Jr., Olive Carey, Ken Curtis, Chet Douglas, Annelle Hayes, David Kent, Anna Lee, Jeanette Nolan, John Qualen, Ford Rainey, Woody Strode.
63. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962). Paramount. Directed by John Ford. Produced by Willis Goldbeck (John Ford Productions). Screenplay by Willis Goldbeck, James Warner Bellah (from the story by Dorothy M. Johnson). Principal cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O’Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray, Jeanette Nolan, John Qualen, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef, Robert F. Simon, O. Z. Whitehead, Paul Birch, Joseph Hoover.
64. MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION (1962). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Henry Koster. Produced by Jerry Wald. Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson (from the novel Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation by Edward Streeter). Principal cast: James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner, Lauri Peters, Valerie Varda, Lili Gentle, John McGiver, Natalie Trundy, Josh Peine, Minerva Urecal, Michael Burns, Richard Collier, Peter Oliphant, Thomas Lowell, Stephen Mines, Dennis Whitcomb, Michael Sean.
65. HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962). MGM (in Cinerama). Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway (Stewart’s segment), George Marshall (uncredited), Richard Thorpe. Produced by Bernard Smith. Screenplay by James R. Webb, John Gay (uncredited). Principal cast: Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter.
66. TAKE HER, SHE’S MINE (1963). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Henry Koster. Produced by Henry Koster. Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson (from the original Broadway play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron). Principal cast: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley, Philippe Forquet, John McGiver, Bob Denver, Monica Moran, Jenny Maxwell, Cynthia Pepper, Maurice Marsac, Irene Tsu, Charla Doherty, Marcel Hillaire, Charles Robinson, Janine Grandel.
67. CHEYENNE AUTUMN (1964). Warner Bros. Directed by John Ford. Produced by Bernard Smith (Ford-Smith Productions). Screenplay by James R. Webb (from the novel by Mari Sandoz). Principal cast: James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Kennedy, Patrick Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, John Carradine, Victor Jory, Judson Pratt, Mike Mazurki, Ken Curtis, George O’Brien, Shug Fisher.
68. DEAR BRIGITTE (1965). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Henry Koster. Produced by Henry Koster (Fred Kohlmar Productions). Screenplay by Hal Kanter, Nunnally Johnson (uncredited) (from the novel Erasmus
with Freckles by John Haase). Principal cast: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Billy Mumy, John Williams, Jack Kruschen, Ed Wynn, Charles Robinson, Howard Freeman, Jane Wald, Alice Pearce, Jesse White, Gene O’Donnell, Brigitte Bardot.
69. SHENANDOAH (1965). Universal. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Produced by Robert Arthur. Screenplay by James Lee Barrett. Principal cast: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford, Katharine Ross, Charles Robinson, Paul Fix, Denver Pyle, George Kennedy, Tim McIntire, James McMullan, James Best, Warren Oates, Strother Martin, Dabbs Greer, Harry Carey Jr., Kevin Hagen, Tom Simcox, Berkeley Harris.
70. THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1965). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Robert Aldrich. Produced by Robert Aldrich. Screenplay by Lukas Heller (from the novel by Elleston Trevor). Principal cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy, Gabriele Tinti, Alex Montoya, Peter Bravos, William Aldrich, Barrie Chase.
71. THE RARE BREED (1966). Universal. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Produced by William Alland. Screenplay by Ric Hardman. Principal cast: James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Perry Lopez, Larry Domasin, Alan Caillou, Bob Gravage, R. L. “Tex” Armstrong, Ted Mapes, Larry Blake, Charles Lampkin.
72. FIRECREEK (1968). Warner Bros.–Seven Arts. Directed by Vincent McEveety. Produced by Philip Leacock. Screenplay by Calvin Clements. Principal cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Gary Lockwood, Dean Jagger, Ed Begley, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Elam, James Best, Barbara Luna, Jacqueline Scott, Brooke Bundy, J. Robert Porter, Morgan Woodward, John Qualen, Louise Latham, Athena Lorde, Harry “Slim” Duncan, Kevin Tate, Christopher Shea.
73. BANDOLERO! (1968). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Produced by Robert L. Jacks. Screenplay by James Lee Barrett (from a screen story by Stanley L. Hough). Principal cast: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine, Will Geer, Clint Ritchie, Denver Pyle, Tom Heaton, Angel Munoz, Sean McClory, Harry Carey Jr., Donald Barry, Guy Raymond, Perry Lopez, Jock Mahoney, Big John Hamilton, Dub Taylor.