Movies by Director - William A. Wellman (75 [Missing: 12]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Big DanNA | 1923 | | Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
| Cupid's FiremanNA | 1923 | | Action,Adventure,Drama | | | Not Available |
| The Man Who WonNA | 1923 | | Western | | | Not Available |
| Second Hand LoveNA | 1923 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| The Circus CowboyNA | 1924 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Not a Drum Was HeardNA | 1924 | | Crime,Western | | | Not Available |
| The Vagabond TrailNA | 1924 | | Western | | | Not Available |
| When Husbands FlirtNA | 1925 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
| Boob, TheIdealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry. He discovers Harry is a rum runner and turns him over to prohibition agents, including Jane. May is at last impressed with Peter. | 1926 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Romance | 5.0 (581 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| The Cat's PajamasNA | 1926 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
| You Never Know WomenA love triangle in a circus troupe, | 1926 | William A. Wellman | Drama | 7.0 (115 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| WingsTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. | 1927 | William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Action,Drama,Romance | 7.5 (12.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Beggars of LifeAfter 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 hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, | 1928 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Crime,Drama | 7.5 (1.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Ladies of the MobNA | 1928 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| The Legion of the CondemnedNA | 1928 | | Action,Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
| Chinatown NightsJoan 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. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he is | 1929 | William A. Wellman | Action,Crime,Drama | 6.2 (112 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Man I Love, TheAn arrogant boxer named Dum-Dum Brooks romances beautiful Celia Fields, but then falls for temptress Sonia Barondoff on the eve of the big fight. | 1929 | William A. Wellman | Action,Comedy,Drama | 5.2 (85 votes) | 70 | 20240303 |
| Woman TrapDan, a tough police captain, and Ray, a hardened criminal, are estranged brothers. When Ray faces capture, Kitty, the sister of Ray's ex-partner, offers to help him escape because she sees an opportunity for revenge against Dan. | 1929 | William A. Wellman | Action,Crime,Drama | 5.8 (65 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous ParadiseHeyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms... | 1930 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama,Music | 5.6 (111 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Maybe It's LoveA college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them over to her college. But the players get an | 1930 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Music,Romance | 5.0 (303 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Young EaglesNA | 1930 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Men with WingsPlot #1 is the love triangle between two guys and one girl as they grow into adults and affiliate themselves in the new aircraft industry. Plot #2 is aircraft evolution from the days of Wilbur and Orville Wright to just prior to WWII | 1938 | William A. Wellman | Action,Drama,Romance | 6.2 (164 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Night NurseA nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. | 1931 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Other Men's WomenEvents take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife. | 1930 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance | 6.5 (1.2K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Safe In HellAfter 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. | 1931 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama,Romance | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Star Witness, TheMembers of a family witness two murders, but the gang uses threats, violence and kidnapping to try to keep the members from testifying. | 1931 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama | 6.3 (663 votes) | 68 | 20220414 |
| Frisco JennyFrisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. | 1932 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama,Music | 6.9 (972 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Conquerors, TheA newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire. | 1932 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.3 (276 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Hatchet Man, TheA hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong. | 1932 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama | 6.3 (809 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Love is a RacketJimmy writes the 'Up and Down Broadway' column for the New York Globe, and he is head over heels for Mary. But Mary is more interested in her career and is looking at starring on Broadway with the help of Boncour. However, there is a | 1932 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.3 (435 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Purchase Price, TheA torch singer becomes a mail-order bride for a farmer. | 1932 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Drama | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| So Big!Following the death of Selena's father, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins. | 1932 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Central AirportAviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins. | 1933 | William A. Wellman, Alfred E. Green | Drama | 6.4 (406 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| College CoachCoach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power. | 1933 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Sport | 5.8 (521 votes) | 76 | 20240530 |
| Heroes for SaleA veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world. | 1933 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance,War | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Lilly TurnerA carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer. | 1933 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance | 6.5 (443 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Midnight MaryAn abused orphan sinks into a life of crime. | 1933 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama,Romance | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Wild Boys of the RoadIn the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected. | 1933 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama | 7.5 (1.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Looking for TroubleJoe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and left in a burning building. | 1934 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.4 (156 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| President Vanishes, TheLike the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war. | 1934 | William A. Wellman | Drama | 6.1 (123 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| StingareeA young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance. | 1934 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 5.8 (456 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Call of the Wild, TheDuring the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a jilted married woman. | 1935 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama,Family | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Robin Hood of El DoradoIn the 1840s, Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta avenges his wife's death against ... | 1936 | William A. Wellman | Western | 5.9 (345 votes) | 85 | 20240303 |
| Small Town GirlKay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a | 1936 | William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy,Romance | 6.6 (874 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Nothing SacredAn 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. | 1937 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Drama,Fantasy | 6.9 (6.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Star Is Born, AA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him. | 1937 | William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Drama,Romance | 7.3 (9.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Beau GesteThree adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. | 1939 | William A. Wellman | Action,Adventure,Drama | 7.6 (5.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Light That Failed, TheDick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him. | 1939 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 6.7 (467 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Reaching for the SunA backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor. | 1941 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance | 6.8 (82 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Great Man's Lady, TheA 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks. | 1941 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.7 (757 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Roxie HartRoxie 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? | 1942 | William A. Wellman | Comedy | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the AirA veteran American flyer trains new recruits, including the acrophobic son of his dead war buddy. Complications arise when the younger man falls in love with his mentor's girl. | 1942 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance,War | 6.2 (463 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Lady of BurlesqueAfter one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again. | 1943 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Horror,Music | 6.3 (2.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Ox-Bow Incident, TheWhen a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. | 1942 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Western | 8.0 (22.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Buffalo BillThe story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show. | 1944 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Western | 6.4 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Story of G.I. JoeAt the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy. | 1945 | William A. Wellman | Biography,Drama,War | 7.2 (3.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Man's Navy, TheNed Trumpet, the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow Maude Weaver and her son Jess in effect sets him up with a real family. | 1945 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama | 6.3 (253 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Gallant JourneyThis historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883. | 1946 | William A. Wellman | Biography,Drama,History | 6.4 (253 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Magic TownAn opinion pollster finds a town which is a perfect mirror of U.S. opinions. | 1947 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Iron Curtain, TheThe 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. | 1948 | William A. Wellman | Biography,Crime,History | 6.4 (897 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Yellow SkyA pistol-packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town. | 1948 | William A. Wellman | Crime,Drama,Western | 7.4 (4.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| BattlegroundTrue 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. | 1949 | William A. Wellman | Action,Drama,History | 7.5 (7.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Happy Years, TheBased on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink "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 becaus | 1950 | William A. Wellman | Comedy,Family,Romance | 6.9 (718 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Next Voice You Hear, TheOver a period of a week the voice of God is heard on radios all over the world. | 1950 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Fantasy | 6.3 (849 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Across the Wide MissouriTrapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief. | 1951 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 6.2 (2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Westward the WomenA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there. | 1951 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama,Western | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| My Man and IIn 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. | 1952 | William A. Wellman | Drama | 6.3 (372 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Island in the SkyA 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. | 1953 | William A. Wellman | Adventure,Drama | 6.8 (3.8K votes) | 109 | 20240303 |
| High and The Mighty, TheWhen 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. | 1954 | William A. Wellman | Action,Adventure,Drama | 6.8 (5.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Track of the CatAround 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. | 1954 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Western | 6.4 (2.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Blood AlleyHis 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. | 1955 | William A. Wellman, John Wayne | Action,Adventure | 6.3 (3.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Good-bye, My LadyAn old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog. | 1956 | William A. Wellman | Drama | 7.2 (814 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Darby's RangersThe lives, loves, and battles of fictional characters in the Army's First Ranger Battalion during WWII. | 1958 | William A. Wellman | Action,Drama,War | 6.3 (1.6K votes) | 121 | 20240303 |
| Lafayette EscadrilleAmerican youth and flying ace flies for France in World War I, meets and loves a French girl and a prostitute. | 1958 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance,War | 5.6 (790 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |