William A. Wellman

William A. Wellman

February 29, 1896

William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation theme…

Known For

20 titles
1
The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943 · 1h 15m · Movie

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel inspires an account of a lynch mob that seeks revenge for a rancher's murder.

8.0
2
The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

1931 · 1h 23m · Movie

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

7.6
3
Wings

Wings

1927 · 2h 24m · Movie

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

7.5
4
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1937 · 1h 51m · Movie

Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.

7.3
5
Battleground

Battleground

1949 · 1h 58m · Movie

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.

7.4
6
Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred

1937 · 1h 17m · Movie

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.

6.8
7
The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty

1954 · 2h 27m · Movie

When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.

6.6
8
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1939 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.

7.5
9
Night Nurse

Night Nurse

1931 · 1h 12m · Movie

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

7.0
10
Story of G.I. Joe

Story of G.I. Joe

1945 · 1h 48m · Movie

At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.

7.2
11
Island in the Sky

Island in the Sky

1953 · 1h 49m · Movie

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

6.8
12
Westward the Women

Westward the Women

1951 · 1h 58m · Movie

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.

7.6
13
Blood Alley

Blood Alley

1955 · 1h 50m · Movie

His ship seized by the Chinese Communists, American Merchant Captain Tom Wilder languishes in prison but Chinese villagers help him escape to sail them to Hong-Kong.

6.2
14
Lady of Burlesque

Lady of Burlesque

1943 · 1h 31m · Movie

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.

6.3
15
Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

1935 · 1h 35m · Movie

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a stranded widow.

6.8
16
Track of the Cat

Track of the Cat

1954 · 1h 42m · Movie

Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock.

6.4
17
Safe in Hell

Safe in Hell

1931 · 1h 13m · Movie

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

6.9
18
Roxie Hart

Roxie Hart

1942 · 1h 15m · Movie

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

6.9
19
Frisco Jenny

Frisco Jenny

1933 · 1h 13m · Movie

The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.

6.8
20
The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain

1948 · 1h 27m · Movie

The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.

6.3
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