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
Track of the Cat (1954) William A. Wellman, Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn
A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen Read More »
The Conquerors (1932) William A. Wellman, Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire. 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 »
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 »
Dangerous Paradise (1930) William A. Wellman, Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland
A young man named Heyst, soured on civilization, lives alone on a remote island “somewhere east of Suez”. Read More »
Stingaree (1934) William A. Wellman, Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson that he will capture the famous outlaw Stingaree, who has returned to the area. Read More »
Midnight Mary (1933) William A. Wellman, Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager Read More »
Small Town Girl (1936) William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard, Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. Read More »
Wings (1927) William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots in WW1. Read More »
Ring of Fear (1954) James Edward Grant, William A. Wellman, Clyde Beatty, Pat O’Brien, Mickey Spillane
Three psychiatrists find that Dublin O’Malley has homicidal tendencies, an under-diagnosis at best. Read More »
Love Is a Racket (1932) William A. Wellman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Jimmy writes the’Up and Down Broadway’ column to the New York Globe, and he’s head over heels for Mary. Read More »
A Star is Born (1937) William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Drama
Esther Blodgett is another starry-eyed farm child trying to break into the films. Waitressing in a Hollywood party, she catches the attention of alcoholic star Norman Maine Read More »
Across the Wide Missouri (1951) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adventure, Romance, Western
From the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell along with other white guys hunt and trap in the then unnamed lands of Montana and Idaho. Read More »
Nothing Sacred (1937) William A. Wellman, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the information that her terminal instance of radium poisoning by a workplace episode proved to be a comprehensive misdiagnosis with mixed feelings. Read More »