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Tag Archives: William A. Wellman
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 »
Nothing Sacred (1937) William A. Wellman, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease 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 »
Reaching for the Sun (1941) William A. Wellman, Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Comedy
This was a quirky but interesting film about a free footloose sort of fellow played by Joel McCrea who lives in the north Michigan woods and who has an ambition to get an outboard motor for his rowboat. Read More »
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) William A. Wellman, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Drama, Western
Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. Read More »
Yellow Sky (1948) William A. Wellman, Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Crime, Western
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town Read More »
Roxie Hart (1942) William A. Wellman, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Comedy, Crime, Romance
To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don’t seem to let dames swing Read More »
Lafayette Escadrille (1958) William A. Wellman
The brave Americans who flew for France before the U.S. entered World War I are saluted in Lafayette Escadrille, a rousing and flavorful adventure filled with flyboy camaraderie. Read More »
Blood Alley (1955) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Action, Adventure
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local villagers, is “shanghaied” into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. Read More »