Search results for "William A. Wellman"
The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price
IMDb: 6.4
68

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Safe in Hell

Safe in Hell

Safe in Hell
IMDb: 6.9
71

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Maybe It’s Love

Maybe It’s Love

Maybe It’s Love
IMDb: 5
72

A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
You Never Know Women

You Never Know Women

You Never Know Women
IMDb: 6.6
71

On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Gallant Journey

Gallant Journey

Gallant Journey
IMDb: 6.3
85

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical…

Genre: Drama, History
It’s a Big Country

It’s a Big Country

It’s a Big Country
IMDb: 6
89

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios’ best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern….

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Frisco Jenny

Frisco Jenny

Frisco Jenny
IMDb: 6.9
73

Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to…

Genre: Drama
The Next Voice You Hear…

The Next Voice You Hear…

The Next Voice You Hear…
IMDb: 6.3
83

The Next Voice You Hear… (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world….

Genre: Drama
So Big!

So Big!

So Big!
IMDb: 7.1
81

A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son.

Genre: Drama, Romance
College Coach

College Coach

College Coach
IMDb: 6
75

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look…

Genre: Drama
The Hatchet Man

The Hatchet Man

The Hatchet Man
IMDb: 6.3
74

When he’s forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man’s daughter.

Genre: Crime, Drama
My Man and I

My Man and I

My Man and I
IMDb: 6.3
99

In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.

Genre: Drama
Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
IMDb: 7
74

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager — a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Love Is a Racket

Love Is a Racket

Love Is a Racket
IMDb: 6.3
71

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who’s beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Conquerors

The Conquerors

The Conquerors
IMDb: 6.3
86

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

Heroes for Sale

Heroes for Sale

Heroes for Sale
IMDb: 7.3
72

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized…

Genre: Drama
China Seas

China Seas

China Seas
IMDb: 6.9
87

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only risky cargo he carries; both…

The Great Man’s Lady

The Great Man’s Lady

The Great Man’s Lady
IMDb: 6.7
90

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded…

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty
IMDb: 6.8
147

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight – one that takes…

Battleground

Battleground

Battleground
IMDb: 7.5
118

The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led…

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident
IMDb: 8
76

Gil Carter and Art Croft ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, Carter and Croft eventually join a posse out…

Genre: Western
Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred
IMDb: 6.9
77

When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

Beau Geste
IMDb: 7.6
112

Academy Award winners Gary Cooper and Ray Milland star along with Robert Preston in the epic adventure Beau Geste. When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born
IMDb: 7.3
111

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life
IMDb: 7.5
82

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Westward the Women

Westward the Women

Westward the Women
IMDb: 7.6
118

In a time when “The West” pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there’s a severe lack of women among the…

Darby’s Rangers

Darby’s Rangers

Darby’s Rangers
IMDb: 6.4
121

Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army’s 1st Ranger Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Tarzan Escapes

Tarzan Escapes

Tarzan Escapes
IMDb: 6.6
89

White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane’s cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane’s help…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Ernie Pyle’s Story of G.I. Joe

Ernie Pyle’s Story of G.I. Joe

Ernie Pyle’s Story of G.I. Joe
IMDb: 7.2
108

War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers…

Genre: Drama, War
The Happy Years

The Happy Years

The Happy Years
IMDb: 6.9
110

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink “Dink” Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Island in the Sky

Island in the Sky

Island in the Sky
IMDb: 6.9
109

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane’s pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Lafayette Escadrille

Lafayette Escadrille

Lafayette Escadrille
IMDb: 5.6
93

A hotshot young flyer falls for a French sex worker during World War I.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri
IMDb: 6.2
78

In the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a…

Night Nurse

Night Nurse

Night Nurse
IMDb: 7
72

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Track of the Cat

Track of the Cat

Track of the Cat
IMDb: 6.5
102

A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and…

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
This Man’s Navy

This Man’s Navy

This Man’s Navy
IMDb: 6.3
100

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill
IMDb: 6.4
90

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator’s daughter (Maureen O’Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Thunder Birds

Thunder Birds

Thunder Birds
IMDb: 6.2
78

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Blood Alley

Blood Alley

Blood Alley
IMDb: 6.3
110

A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is “shanghaied” into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild
IMDb: 6.8
95

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a…