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1	The High and the Mighty (1954) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more in control of things than Captain John Sullivan (Robert Stack) when the plane loses an engine ... see all copies from $15.44! new only from $15.44!
2	The Public Enemy (1931) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring James Cagney, Edward Woods, Donald Cook, Joan Blondell, Jean Harlow William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown various episodes of Tom's childhood with the corrupting influences of the beer hall, pool parlor, and false friends like minor-league fence Putty Nose. As young adults, Tom (James Cagney) and his pal, Matt Doyle (Edward ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.00!
3	Yellow Sky (1948) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the film's advantage. Outlaw leader Gregory Peck takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are elderly James Barton and his pretty granddaughter Anne Baxter. Barton reveals that there's gold hereabouts, prompting ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $10.95!
4	Blood Alley (1955) more movies like this directed by John Wayne, William Wellman featuring Berry Kroeger, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim, Anita Ekberg John Wayne teaches those dirty Commies yet another lesson in Blood Alley. Wayne plays a veteran seaman who comes to the aid of Lauren Bacall, the daughter of a missionary doctor killed by the Red Chinese. It takes no little persuasion, but Bacall finally convinces Wayne to smuggle a group of villagers past the Communist forces and into the safe ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.57!
5	Battleground (1949) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Marshall Thompson Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM boss Louis Mayer. The result was an award-winning box-office hit, as well as the beginning of the end of Mayer's power. This dramatization of the battles of Bastogne and the Bulge in the waning days of World War II ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $6.85!
6	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, Jane Darwell This now-classic indictment of mob rule was a pet project of both star Henry Fonda and director William Wellman, both of whom agreed to work on lesser 20th Century-Fox projects in exchange for this film. After a hard winter on the range, cowboys Gil Carter (Fonda) and Art Croft (Harry Morgan) ride into a fleabitten small town for a drink. Within ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95!
7	Lady of Burlesque (1943) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson, Marion Martin Barbara Stanwyck shines in her second portrayal of a showgirl in less than two years (the first was in Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire in 1941). In Lady of Burlesque -- which, at times, has a Hawksian edge to the dialogue -- she portrays Dixie Daisy, a striptease artist at a Broadway theater in New York at the end of the 1930s. In the course of fending ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00!
8	Island in the Sky (1953) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador. The five men, led by Dooley (John Wayne), have barely any food and almost no way to keep warm, and their power supply is fading fast, but they have to find a way of staying alive until search planes find them. At first, even ... see all copies from $7.10! new only from $8.93!
9	The Next Voice You Hear (1950) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring James Whitmore, Nancy Davis, Gary Gray, Lillian Bronson, Art Smith The Next Voice You Hear was a pet project of MGM producer Dore Schary, who lavished more attention on this modestly budgeted drama than he did on some of his "bigger" projects. Though based on characters first introduced in the 1942 film Joe Smith, American, Next Voice was not a sequel to the earlier film. James Whitmore stars as blue-collar ... see all copies from $64.82!
10	Goodbye, My Lady (1956) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon de Wilde, Sidney Poitier, William Hopper The focus of this heartfelt family film is Skeeter (Brandon de Wilde), a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his aged Uncle Jesse (Walter Brennan) in the swamps of the deep South. Their lives are brightened by a stray dog that Skeeter discovers and takes in. He makes the basenji his own, but eventually finds out that the dog is missing and its owner ... see all copies from $18.69!
11	Roxie Hart (1942) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court trials. Ginger Rogers plays showgirl Roxie Hart, whose no-good husband kills a man and insists that Roxie take the blame, since juries seldom send a woman to the chair. She agrees, figuring that the publicity will be beneficial ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $7.21!
12 view cover	A Star Is Born (1937) more movies like this directed by Jack Conway, William Wellman featuring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell a "true behind-the-scenes" story of Hollywood. The truth, of course, was filtered a bit for box-office purposes, although Selznick and an army of screenwriters based much of their script on actual people and events. Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, the small-town ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
13 view cover	Nothing Sacred (1937) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Rumann "This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..." With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, a hotshot ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
14 view cover	The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Chris Cunningham, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell, Lucien Hubbard The Story of G.I. Joe was based on the columns of Scripps-Howard war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Though already past 40, Pyle insists upon marching along with an Army infantry unit during the Italian campaign. He befriends several of the soldiers, including commanding officer Robert Mitchum (his breakthrough role), family man Freddie Steele and ... see all copies from $8.86! new only from $26.58!
15 view cover	Buffalo Bill (1944) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell, Anthony Quinn No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have enjoyed this Technicolor version of his life and times. Well played by Joel McCrea, Cody is first seen as an army Indian scout, pursuing peaceful coexistence despite the animosity of Chief Yellow Hand (Anthony Quinn) and the ... see all copies from $11.05! new only from $11.05!
16 view cover	Thunder Birds (1942) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Gene Tierney, Preston S. Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Dame May Whitty On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War Two. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse (John Sutton), competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders (Gene Tierney), the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton ... see all copies from $10.78! new only from $10.78!
17 view cover	The Great Man's Lady (1942) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup, Barbara Stanwyck reminisces on her experiences in the American West. As a young woman, she is squired by gambler Brian Donlevy, but her heart belongs to dreamer Joel McCrea. She chooses McCrea, and the first years of their marriage are ... see all copies from $19.99!
18 view cover	Ring of Fear (1954) more movies like this directed by Edward Grant, James Edward Grant, William Wellman featuring Jack Stang, Pat O'Brien, Mickey Spillane, Sean McClory, Marian Carr A real "must see" for devotees of 1950s pop culture, Ring of Fear boasts a script co-written by character actor Paul Fix and a cast which includes the likes of animal trainer Clyde Beatty and pulp-fiction novelist Mickey Spillane. The story takes place in Beatty's travelling circus, where a homicidal maniac named Dublin (Sean McClory) is doing his ... see all copies from $10.78! new only from $10.78!
19 view cover	Track of the Cat (1954) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter, Beulah Bondi In this experimental 1954 Western, director William Wellman uses black-and-white backgrounds with occasional splatches of color on certain characters' bodies and clothes. On a snowbound ranch in northern California, the Bridges family is trapped by winter weather and its own internal conflicts. It is run by a stern matriarch, Ma Bridges (Beulah ... see all copies from $12.34! new only from $12.34!
20 view cover	Westward the Women (1951) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Henry Nakamura, Julie Bishop Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and handed the reigns instead to his former Liberty Films partner William A. Wellman. This stark, no-nonsense outdoor drama stars Robert Taylor as a trail guide named Buck, who in 1851 is hired by California settler Roy Whitman ... see all copies from $85.00! new only from $85.00!
21 view cover	Beau Geste (1939) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927 silent version. We open on the now-famous scenes of a remote, burning desert fort, manned by the dead Foreign Legionnaires, then flash back to the early lives of the Geste brothers. As children, the Gestes swear eternal ... see all copies from $5.09! new only from $27.43!

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