Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters, their lives frowned upon by Tom’s straight laced brother Read More »
Tag Archives: William A. Wellman
Beggars of Life (1928) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. Read More »
Good-bye, My Lady (1956) William A. Wellman, Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
Skeeter has found this dog and discovers no one knows what kind of dog it is. Read More »
The Boob (1926) William A. Wellman, Gertrude Olmstead, George K. Arthur, Joan Crawford
Idealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry. Read More »
It’s a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951) Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper
The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit Read More »
Night Nurse (1931) William A. Wellman, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. Read More »
Frisco Jenny (1932) William A. Wellman, Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. Read More »
Maybe It’s Love (1930) William A. Wellman, Joe E. Brown, Joan Bennett, James Hall
A college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) Read More »
Woman Trap (1929) William A. Wellman, Hal Skelly, Chester Morris, Evelyn Brent
Dan, a tough police captain, and Ray, a hardened criminal, are estranged brothers. Read More »
College Coach (1933) William A. Wellman, Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Pat O’Brien
A ruthless coach (Pat O’Brien) creates turmoil at a college by hiring players (Lyle Talbot) Read More »
The Hatchet Man (1932) William A. Wellman, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges
San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Read More »
Gallant Journey (1946) William A. Wellman, Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation Read More »
Island in the Sky (1953) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec Read More »
The Next Voice You Hear… (1950) William A. Wellman, James Whitmore, Nancy Reagan, Gary Gray
“Joe Smith, American” lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works at an aircraft plant. Read More »
Thunder Birds (1942) William A. Wellman, Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. Read More »