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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) William A. Wellman, Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Adventure, Drama
In the base of the melancholy, Tom’s mom was out of work for weeks when Ed’s dad loses his job. Read More »
Battleground (1949) William A. Wellman, Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, Action, War, Drama
We follow a band of American soldiers as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near Bastogne in World War II. Read More »
Lilly Turner (1933) William A. Wellman, Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Drama
A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she’s pregnant. She then marries the carnival’s barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer. Read More »
Looking for Trouble (1934) William A. Wellman, Spencer Tracy, Jack Oakie, Constance Cummings, Comedy, Crime, Drama
The President Vanishes (1934) William A. Wellman, Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron, Paul Kelly, Drama
Like the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war. Read More »
Darbys Rangers (1958) William A. Wellman, James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden, Action, Drama, War
Highly fictionalized account of the formation of the US Army’s First Ranger Battalion in World War II and their first commanding officer Major (later, Lieutenant-Colonel) Orlando Darby. Read More »