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6 great Jimmy Stewart Movies

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Was shopping at Costco today and picked up a "6-pack" of Jimmy Stewart movies for $14.99. About $2.50 per. Includes the following: Firecreek, The Cheyenne Social Club, The Stratton Story, The Naked Spur, The FBI Story, and the Spririt of St. Louis.

Stewart is one of my all-time favorite actors.
 
Sounds like a good collection.

One of my favorites: Strategic Air Command. Jimmy Stewart is called back from his baseball career by the USAF. Flies a B-36 from Fort Worth Texas to Alaska and back, survives a crash in Greenland, pilots the "new" B-47 - and comes home to June Allyson and their new baby!

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<span style="font-style: italic"> Glenn Miller Story </span>! Great one!
 
Absolutely no argument with the movies you guys have already listed - Let me add these two Hitchcock films: The Rear Window (Grace Kelly) and Vertigo (Kim Novak). Thought he was great in both.
 
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Lee Marvin was great, also.
 
Indiana PA is right up the road... Almost time for the "It's a Wonderful Life" decorations to start creeping up.
 
NutmegCT said:
Sounds like a good collection.

One of my favorites: Strategic Air Command. Jimmy Stewart is called back from his baseball career by the USAF. <snip>
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SAC is one of my favorite Stewart Movies too. Might be because I had a huge crush on June Allyson in my "yute." I have SAC in my iTunes movie collection. My top five Stewart Movies, in order are:

1. Mr Smith Goes to Washington
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Flight of the Phoenix (The stunt pilot died making it)
4. Strategic Air Command (Reallly tied with #3)
5. The Spirit of St Louis

And I really like all of the Hitchcock films he did (Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window)
 
All good films. Jimmy got access to the B-36 and B-47 at the time no one else could get by virtue of being a reserve Brigadier, a position he maintained until he retired in the 1970s I believe.

Only one I have a problem with, and it's a detail only, is Spirit of St Louis as he was really much too old to be playing Lindbergh when making the flight.
 
Don't forget Winchester 73 or The Philadelphia Story. Wasn't he also in one of the Thin Man movies?
 
Just finished watching The Naked Spur. Had never seen it before. Ok movie, but not way I'd call one of Stewarts best. So-so direction and production. Some nice scenery though.
 
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