When four men rob a bank, one is killed and the other three escape into the desert where they lose their horses in a storm. Read More »
Tag Archives: William Wyler
Roman Holiday (1953) William Wyler, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Joe Bradley is a reporter for the American News Service in Rome, a job he doesn’t much like as he would rather work Read More »
The Little Foxes (1941) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Read More »
The Westerner (1940) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Cole Harden just doesn’t look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Read More »
The Two Fister (1927) William Wyler, Edmund Cobb, Elsa Benham, Howard Davies, Short, Western
Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Read More »
Carrie (1952) William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Drama, Romance
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister’s husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Read More »
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) William Wyler, Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Crime, Drama, Romance
Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler, Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Drama, Romance
A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1939) William Wyler, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Drama, Romance
Raffles (1939) Sam Wood, William Wyler, David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Read More »
The Children’s Hour (1961) William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Drama, Romance
Longtime friends Martha (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen (Audrey Hepburn) run a boarding school for girls. When an unruly child, Mary (Karen Balkin), is punished for lying, she concocts a story that Karen and Martha are having a lesbian relationship. When the story spreads, parents withdraw their children from the school. The women’s lawsuit for libel hits many snags when they lack witnesses to speak for them. All the stress adversely affects Karen’s engagement to Joe Cardin (James Garner).
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The Big Country (1958) William Wyler, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Romance, Western
Retired, wealthy sea Captain Jame McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.
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The Gay Deception (1935) William Wyler, Francis Lederer, Frances Dee, Benita Hume, Comedy
Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.
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