Battleground

1949

English

7.4

♡ 28

78%

William A. Wellman Director

Jean Del Val as French Peasant Man

Douglas Fowley as 'Kipp' Kippton

George Chandler as Mess Sergeant

Bill Erwin as Warrant Officer

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.

Nothing Sacred

1937

English

6.8

♡ 12

100%

William A. Wellman Director

Billy Barty as Boy Biting Wally's Ankle

George Chandler as Photographer

Ann Doran as Telephone Girl

Fredric March as Wally Cook

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

Beggars of Life

1928

English

7.4

♡ 5

80%

William A. Wellman Director

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Baker's Cart Driver

Wallace Beery as Oklahoma Red

Richard Arlen as The Boy - Jim

Louise Brooks as The Girl - Nancy

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 hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Beau Geste

1939

English

7.5

♡ 11

92%

83%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

William A. Wellman Director

Donald O'Connor as Beau Geste

Nestor Paiva as Corporal Golas

Ray Milland as John Geste

George Chandler as Legionnaire Cordier

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.

The High and the Mighty

1954

English

6.6

♡ 19

46%

William A. Wellman Director

John Indrisano as Radar Operator

William Hopper as Roy

Jan Sterling as Sally McKee

Regis Toomey as Tim Garfield

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 a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

Magic Town

1947

English

6.4

♡ 7

50%

William A. Wellman Director

Regis Toomey as Ed Weaver

Vic Perrin as Elevator Starter

Ann Doran as Mrs. Weaver

Kent Smith as Professor Frederick Hoopendecker

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. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

Island in the Sky

1953

English

6.8

♡ 5

86%

William A. Wellman Director

Louis Jean Heydt as Fitch

Sean McClory as Frank Lovatt

John Indrisano as Mechanic

Regis Toomey as Sgt. Harper

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

Frisco Jenny

1932

English

6.8

♡ 1

56%

san francisco, california

William A. Wellman Director

Nella Walker as Janet Reynolds

Ruth Chatterton as Jenny

William A. Wellman as Reporter

Edwin Maxwell as Tom Ford

Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.

Call of the Wild

1935

English

6.8

♡ 16

55%

Action

Adventure

alaska

based on novel or book

William A. Wellman Director

Theodore Lorch as Dawson Townsman

Duke Green as Frank

Reginald Owen as Mr. Smith

John T. Murray as Stage Heavy

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 sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

The Great Man's Lady

1941

English

6.5

♡ 4

44%

William A. Wellman Director

George Chandler as Forbes

John Roy as Man in Saloon

Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Cadwallader

Irving Bacon as Parson

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 to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

Safe in Hell

1931

English

6.9

♡ 6

100%

new orleans, louisiana

Romance

shot to death

William A. Wellman Director

Noble Johnson as Bobo - a Caribbean Policeman

Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda Carlson - aka Gilda Erickson

Nina Mae McKinney as Leonie - the Hotel Manager

Kenneth MacDonald as Wireless Operator

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 the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.

Westward the Women

1951

English

7.6

♡ 7

69%

William A. Wellman Director

Gene Roth as Bartender

George Chandler as Mackeral Face

Frank McGrath as Outrider

Roy Jenson as (uncredited)

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.

You Never Know Women

1926

English

6.8

♡ 2

William A. Wellman Director

Sidney Bracey as Manager

Eugene Pallette as Party Guest

El Brendel as Toberchik

Florence Vidor as Vera

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 to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.

The Iron Curtain

1948

English

6.3

♡ 1

59%

based on memoir or autobiography

William A. Wellman Director

Gene Tierney as Anna Gouzenko

Peter Whitney as Cipher Lt. Vinikov

Stefan Schnabel as Col. Ilya Ranov

June Havoc as Nina Karanova

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.

The Boob

1926

English

5.4

♡ 3

11%

William A. Wellman Director

Charles Murray as Cactus Jim

Viola Webster as Girl at Booklovers Club

Joan Crawford as Jane - A Revenue Agent

Hank Mann as The Village Soda Clerk

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

Yellow Sky

1948

English

7.4

♡ 9

100%

William A. Wellman Director

Norman Leavitt as Bank Teller

Anne Baxter as Constance Mae 'Mike'

Gregory Peck as James 'Stretch' Dawson

Robert Adler as Jed

In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.

Roxie Hart

1942

English

6.9

♡ 4

82%

58%

based on play or musical

William A. Wellman Director

George Chandler as Amos Hart

George Montgomery as Homer Howard

William Frawley as O'Malley

Mary Treen as Secretary

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.

Wings

1927

English

7.5

♡ 24

94%

William A. Wellman Director

Henry B. Walthall as David's Father

William A. Wellman as Doughboy

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Jack Powell

Charles Barton as Soldier Flirting with Mary

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.

Night Nurse

1931

English

7.0

♡ 8

82%

William A. Wellman Director

Charles Winninger as Dr. Bell

Barbara Stanwyck as Lora Hart

Joan Blondell as Maloney

Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Maxwell

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 children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

The Public Enemy

1931

English

7.6

♡ 19

100%

William A. Wellman Director

Arnold Lucy as Brewery owner

Jean Harlow as Gwen Allen

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Paddy Ryan

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Tom

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

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Battleground

Nothing Sacred

Beggars of Life

Beau Geste

The High and the Mighty

Magic Town

Island in the Sky

Frisco Jenny

Call of the Wild

The Great Man's Lady

Safe in Hell

Westward the Women

You Never Know Women

The Iron Curtain

The Boob

Yellow Sky

Roxie Hart

Wings

Night Nurse

The Public Enemy