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Tag Archives: William Wyler
These Three (1936) William Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
This first film version of “The Children’s Hour” uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play’s lesbian theme. Read More »
Detective Story (1951) William Wyler, Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation Read More »
A House Divided (1931) William Wyler, Walter Huston, Douglass Montgomery, Helen Chandler
In a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries Read More »
Mrs. Miniver (1942) William Wyler, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. Read More »
The Love Trap (1929) William Wyler, Laura La Plante, Neil Hamilton, Robert Ellis
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on Read More »
Barbary Coast (1935) Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work Read More »
The Good Fairy (1935) William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan
Luisa Ginglebusher (Sullavan) leaves the orphanage where she grew up to take a job as a movie theater usherette. Read More »
Tom Brown of Culver (1932) William Wyler, Tom Brown, Slim Summerville, Richard Cromwell
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter. Read More »
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Read More »
How to Steal a Million (1966) William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
Nicole’s father, a legendary art collector, lends his prized Cellini Venus to a prestigious Paris museum. Read More »
The Desperate Hours (1955) William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy
After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house Read More »
Friendly Persuasion (1956) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. Read More »
The Letter (1940) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Read More »
Jezebel (1938) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
In one of her most renowned roles, Bette Davis portrays Julie Marsden Read More »