Movies directed by William A. Wellman (39)
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Good-bye, My Lady (1956) USAGenre: Drama Release: 1956 May, 12 Skeeter has found this dog and discovers no one knows what kind of dog it is... IMDb: 7.2/10 (1 127) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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The High and the Mighty (1954) USA Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller Release: 1954 May, 27 One disaster after another happens on this trans-Pacific flight... IMDb: 6.6/10 (6 713) |
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Island in the Sky (1953) USA Genre: Adventure / Drama Release: 1953 September, 3 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 conditions while waiting for rescue... IMDb: 6.8/10 (3 866) |
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It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951) USA Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 1951 November, 20 The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning... IMDb: 6.0/10 (734) |
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Westward the Women (1951) USA Genre: Western / Drama Release: 1951 December, 16 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 workers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley... IMDb: 7.6/10 (3 903) |
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The Happy Years (1950) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance / Sport Release: 1950 July, 7 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, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student... IMDb: 6.8/10 (769) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1950 June, 29 "Joe Smith, American" lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works at an aircraft plant... IMDb: 6.3/10 (948) |
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The Iron Curtain (1948) USA Genre: Biography / Crime / History / Thriller Release: 1948 May, 12 Soviet soldier turned bureaucrat Igor Gouzenko is assigned to his first overseas posting in 1943 to Ottawa, Canada, as a cipher clerk for the military attaché, their offices in a secret wing of the Soviet embassy... IMDb: 6.3/10 (1 149) |
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Magic Town (1947) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1947 October, 7 Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country... IMDb: 6.4/10 (1 774) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Gallant Journey (1946) USA Genre: Biography / Drama / History Release: 1946 September, 4 Director William A... IMDb: 6.1/10 (309) |
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Buffalo Bill (1944) USA Genre: Biography / Western A fictionalized account of the life of William F... IMDb: 6.4/10 (1 734) |
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Lady of Burlesque (1943) USA Genre: Comedy / Music / Mystery / Romance Release: 1943 May, 1 Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that's been turned into a burlesque theater... IMDb: 6.3/10 (2 849) |
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Reaching for the Sun (1941) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1941 May, 2 IMDb: 6.5/10 (108) |
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Beau Geste (1939) USA Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / War Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon... IMDb: 7.5/10 (6 661) |
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The Light That Failed (1939) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1939 December, 24 Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight... IMDb: 6.6/10 (529) |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) USA Genre: Family / Adventure Release: 1938 February, 11 Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man... IMDb: 7.1/10 (2 288) User Rating: /10 Votes: 7 |
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Men with Wings (1938) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1938 July, 16 IMDb: 6.2/10 (209) |
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Nothing Sacred (1937) USA Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance Release: 1937 November, 25 Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions... IMDb: 6.8/10 (7 376) |
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A Star Is Born (1937) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1937 April, 20 Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies... IMDb: 7.3/10 (11 073) |
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Small Town Girl (1936) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1936 April, 10 Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear... IMDb: 6.5/10 (980) |
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Viva Villa! (1934) USA Genre: Biography / Western Release: 1934 April, 10 After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy... IMDb: 6.3/10 (1 610) |
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Heroes for Sale (1933) USA Genre: Drama / War Release: 1933 June, 17 A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world... IMDb: 7.4/10 (2 549) |
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Central Airport (1933) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1933 April, 15 Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins... IMDb: 6.3/10 (486) |
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933) USA Genre: Adventure / Drama Release: 1933 September, 22 At the bottom of the depression, Tom's mother has been out of work for months when Ed's father loses his job... IMDb: 7.5/10 (2 402) |
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Female (1933) USA Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance Release: 1933 November, 11 Alison is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory... IMDb: 6.7/10 (1 946) |
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The Hatchet Man (1932) USA Genre: Crime / Drama Release: 1932 February, 4 San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun... IMDb: 6.2/10 (920) |
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So Big! (1932) USA Genre: Drama / Romance Release: 1932 April, 29 Selina lived well until her father Simeon died... IMDb: 6.8/10 (1 838) |
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The Conquerors (1932) USA Genre: Drama / Western Release: 1932 November, 18 A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire... IMDb: 6.3/10 (353) |
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Love Is a Racket (1932) USA Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance Release: 1932 June, 10 Jimmy writes the 'Up and Down Broadway' column for the New York Globe, and he is head over heels for Mary... IMDb: 6.2/10 (578) |
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Frisco Jenny (1932) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1932 December, 30 Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house... IMDb: 6.8/10 (1 208) |
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Night Nurse (1931) USA Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery Release: 1931 July, 16 A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children... IMDb: 7.0/10 (4 632) |
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The Public Enemy (1931) USA Genre: Crime / Drama Release: 1931 April, 23 Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters, their lives frowned upon by Tom's straight laced brother, Mike, and Matt's straight laced sister, Molly... IMDb: 7.6/10 (23 393) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Star Witness (1931) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1931 August, 22 The Leeds family is thrown right in the middle of a war between the cops and gangland when they are the only witnesses to two murders committed by gang kingpin Maxey Campos... IMDb: 6.2/10 (768) |
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Chinatown Nights (1929) USA Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Romance Release: 1929 March, 23 Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him... IMDb: 5.5/10 (154) |
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Wings (1927) USA Genre: Drama / Romance / War / Action Release: 1927 May, 19 Two young men fall in love with the same same girl... IMDb: 7.5/10 (14 846) |
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You Never Know Women (1926) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1926 July, 26 A love triangle in a circus troupe, - IMDb IMDb: 6.7/10 (168) |
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Not a Drum Was Heard (1924) USA Genre: Western Release: 1924 January, 27 IMDb: 4.4/10 (26) |
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Big Dan (1923) USA Genre: Drama / Romance Release: 1923 October, 14 IMDb: 4.0/10 (28) |
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The Man Who Won (1923) USA Genre: Western Release: 1923 August, 26 Gambler Wild Bill, promises to protect the children of Scipio, an unlucky miner who sets out to find "Lord" James, a bandit who stole Jessie, his wife... IMDb: 4.8/10 (27) |
