Movies: William A. Wellman

  • 1941
    Reaching for the Sun

    Reaching for the Sun (1941)

    Reaching for the Sun

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    Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line....

    Reaching for the Sun
  • 1952
    My Man and I

    My Man and I (1952)

    My Man and I

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    In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check....

    My Man and I
  • 1923
    The Man Who Won

    The Man Who Won (1923)

    The Man Who Won

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    Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them la...

    The Man Who Won
  • 1919
    The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

    The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919)

    The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

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    A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and other rambunctious antics. He decides to reform his selfish ways and boards a train heading heading fo...

    The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
  • 1929
    The Man I Love

    The Man I Love (1929)

    The Man I Love

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    Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Baclanova (Freaks) on the eve of the big fight....

    The Man I Love
  • 1923
    Big Dan

    Big Dan (1923)

    Big Dan

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    Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train boxers. He meets Dora Allen, rescues her from an unwanted suitor, and gives her shelter in the camp. Fo...

    Big Dan
  • 1918
    The Unwritten Code

    The Unwritten Code (1918)

    The Unwritten Code

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    Kimura, a drunk and a gambler, has no affection for his daughter Kiku-San, who falls in love with Dick Tower, an American college friend of her brother Okuma....

    The Unwritten Code
  • 1923
    Cupid's Fireman

    Cupid's Fireman (1923)

    Cupid's Fireman

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    McGee becomes a fireman over the protests of his mother, who doesn't want to see her son sacrifice his life the way his father did. When she dies, McGee adopts little Elizabeth Stevens, who takes care of him instead of vice versa. Along the way he me...

    Cupid's Fireman
  • 1923
    Second Hand Love

    Second Hand Love (1923)

    Second Hand Love

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    Andy Hanks is an itinerant fix-it man who comes to town with his horse and dog as his only pals. He falls in love with Angela Trent, a young woman with an air of mystery about her....

    Second Hand Love
  • 1924
    The Circus Cowboy

    The Circus Cowboy (1924)

    The Circus Cowboy

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    After a 2-year absence, Buck Saxon returns home to find his girl, Norma, married to the town's wealthiest citizen, Ezra Bagley, yet professing to love Buck. Unjustly accused of attempting to murder Bagley, he escapes and joins a circus, where he fall...

    The Circus Cowboy
  • 1920
    Edgar's Hamlet

    Edgar's Hamlet (1920)

    Edgar's Hamlet

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    Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen....

    Edgar's Hamlet
  • 1919
    Evangeline

    Evangeline (1919)

    Evangeline

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    In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in ho...

    Evangeline
  • 1920
    Edgar and the Teacher's Pet

    Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920)

    Edgar and the Teacher's Pet

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    The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate. But then the real events are seen in contrast with the ones Edgar ha...

    Edgar and the Teacher's Pet