Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. Read More »
Tag Archives: William A. Wellman
Call of the Wild (1935) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. 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 »
The Men Who Made the Movies: William A. Wellman (1973) Richard Schickel, William A. Wellman, Robert Wagner
Film clips and an exclusive interview capture the career of Hollywood”s larger-than-life director William Wellman. Read More »
Story of G.I. Joe (1945) William A. Wellman, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele
The story of men at war and that of the esteemed Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Read More »
My Man and I (1952) William A. Wellman, Shelley Winters, Ricardo Montalban, Wendell Corey
Chu Chu Ramirez is a Mexican farm laborer in California, with lofty ideals, who is very proud of his new American citizenship. Read More »
The Light That Failed (1939) William A. Wellman, Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus
Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. Read More »
Westward the Women (1951) William A. Wellman, Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson
In a time when “The West” pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men Read More »
The Purchase Price (1932) William A. Wellman, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot
Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields Read More »
Chinatown Nights (1929) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown Read More »
Buffalo Bill (1944) William A. Wellman, Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara, Linda Darnell
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. A hunter and Army Scout in the early part of his life Read More »
You Never Know Women (1926) William A. Wellman, Florence Vidor, Lowell Sherman, Clive Brook
You Never Know Women is a thrilling romance that constructs a combustible love triangle between a Russian dancer Read More »
The Public Enemy (1931) William A. Wellman, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters, their lives frowned upon by Tom’s straight laced brother Read More »
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 »