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Tag Archives: William A. Wellman
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 »
A Star is Born (1937) William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Esther Blodgett is another starry-eyed farm child trying to break into the films. Read More »
Magic Town (1947) William A. Wellman, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith
Rip Smith’s opinion-poll business is a failure…until he discovers that the small town 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 »
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 »
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 »