William A. Wellman
Director, Actor
- Wings (1927)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Gary Cooper
- Renowned silent film represents the epic struggles of the allied airforces in WWI, with brilliant aerial sequences, battle recreations and several…
- Public Enemy, The (1931)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. James Cagney, Jean Harlow
- The most influential of early crime films exhibits an unglorified depiction of the American underworld, but James Cagney makes a hoodlum sure worth…
- Nothing Sacred (1937)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Carole Lombard, Fredric March
- Top comedy–farce rests on the charms of Carole Lombard, here at her mercurial best playing a screwy smalltown gal. Pretending to have an…
- A Star Is Born (1937)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Fredric March, Janet Gaynor
- The first version of this since twice–remade tale of Hollywood tragedy is non–musical, developing a more critical edge to accompany the…
- Beau Geste (1939)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston…
- Classic Hollywood gallantry with, Gary Cooper as the eldest of three brothers who run away to join the French Foreign Legion, only to clash bayonets…
- Thunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton…
- Routine wartime love triangle with two fighter pilots falling for a radiant Gene Tierney, gorgeous Technicolor and ace aerial photography liven it up…
- Roxie Hart (Chicago) (1942)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery…
- Comedy adapting the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical.
Ginger Rogers plays the…
- Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
- Buffalo Bill (1944)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
- Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
- Yellow Sky (1948)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark…
- Tough–minded western shot largely in Death Valley has Anne Baxter coming across a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in a neighboring…
- Battleground (1949)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban…
- A tough depiction of WW2 combat set among an American squad during the gruelling Battle of the Bulge, that stands as something of an early classic.…
- Island in the Sky (1953)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, James Arness
- Decent action vehicle for John Wayne, who plays a pilot whose transport plane makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, Canada, where…
- High and the Mighty, The (1954)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day…
- John Wayne undercuts his bravura persona as the reluctant hero piloting a stricken passenger flight over the Atlantic. Solid disaster clichés and a…
- Track of the Cat (1954)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter…
- Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther.
Certainly something of a…