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The Public Enemy review by A customer from Preston

The Public Enemy 10 January 2008
...the '20s style, dialog's and desperation under the masterful directorial eye of William A. Wellman, this is a virtual time capsule of the prohibition era: taunt, gritty, hard-hit... Read customer review

William A. Wellman - filmography

Track Of The Cat (1954)
Starring: Robert Mitchum
Director: William A. Wellman
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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 ..read more »

60% from 61 members
Not currently released

The High And Mighty on DVD (1954)
Starring: John Wayne
Director: William A. Wellman
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John Wayne delivered one of his most memorable performances in THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, a suspenseful thrill ride that presaged the disaster films of the 1970s with the story of a commercial jetliner that suffers engine trouble on a transpacific flight from Honolulu to San Francisco. With pilot ..read more »

65% from 151 members

Battleground on DVD (1949)
Starring: Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Director: William A. Wellman
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"Dedicated to the battered bastards of Bastogne," this dramatic historic film directed by William Wellman tells the story of a U.S. Army division in the European theatre near the end of World War II. In a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the war, the Germans launch a final attack that became ..read more »

60% from 600 members

Yellow Sky on DVD (1949)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
Director: William A. Wellman, John Schlesinger
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William Wellman deftly directed this wide-open Western packed with suspense and set in the Wild West during 1867. Gregory Peck plays Stretch, the leader of a gang of saddletramps who are robbing banks across the frontier. In their travels they come across an abandoned town strangely inhabited by ..read more »

64% from 145 members

Yellow Sky - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
Director: William A. Wellman, John Schlesinger
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William Wellman deftly directed this wide-open Western packed with suspense and set in the Wild West during 1867. Gregory Peck plays Stretch, the leader of a gang of saddletramps who are robbing banks across the frontier. In their travels they come across an abandoned town strangely inhabited by ..read more »

35% from 2 members
Due for release on 25th June 2012

The Ghost And Mrs Muir - Gene Tierney Co... on DVD (1947)
Starring: Preston Foster, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison
Director: William A. Wellman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Ford
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz's bittersweet, sparkling romance between a young widow and a sea captain's ghost weaves a magical tale of immortal love. Determined to live her life the way she wants, newly widowed Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) declines her straitlaced in-laws' demand that she live with them and ..read more »

72% from 1,108 member

Magic Town on DVD (1947)
Starring: James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Ann Doran
Director: William A. Wellman
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Jimmy Stewart plays Lawrence Smith in this Capraesque tale in which an ambitious pollster finds a small town whose citizens' opinions accurately reflect those of America at large. On discovering this oddity in the darling town of Grandview, Smith plots to exploit this "mathematical miracle." Posing ..read more »

59% from 190 members

Leave Her to Heaven - Gene Tierney Colle... on DVD (1946)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Cornel Wilde
Director: John M. Stahl, William A. Wellman, John Ford
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Gene Tierney stars as a father-fixated girl who picks a husband because of his resemblance to Daddy, and is then consumed with possessive, destructive jealousy.

67% from 469 members

Buffalo Bill on DVD (1944)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
Director: William A. Wellman
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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 ..read more »

53% from 103 members

Laura - Gene Tierney Collection (1944)
Starring: Preston Foster, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Director: William A. Wellman, Otto Preminger, John Ford
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Nominated for five Academy Awards, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy, acid-tongued journalist (Clifford Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But entrancement leads ..read more »

72% from 805 members
Not currently released

The Ox-Bow Incident on DVD (1943)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Director: William A. Wellman
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Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done ..read more »

72% from 349 members

Lady of Burlesque on DVD (1943)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg
Director: William A. Wellman, William A Wellman
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The behind-the-scenes shenanigans of a burlesque show set the stage for this mixture of comedy, music, sex appeal, and murder. While sardonic comedian Biff Brannigan constantly hits on lead stripper Dixie Daisy she continually rejects his lascivious advances. She, after all, is too busy thinking ..read more »

52% from 213 members

Thunder Birds - Gene Tierney Collection on DVD (1942)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
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This drama from 1942 was directed by Oscar-winner William A. Wellman, and features stunning aerial photography, that was highly advanced for the time. John Sutton stars as Peter Stackhouse, a British aviophobe who is nonetheless determined to become a pilot. Stackhouse's resolution comes from his ..read more »

52% from 58 members

Roxie Hart (1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Nigel Bruce, Ted North
Director: William A. Wellman
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To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don't seem to let dames swing, and even with top slippery lawyer Billy Flynn, it's all something of a gamble.

61% from 14 members
Currently unavailable

Tobacco Road - Gene Tierney Collection on DVD (1941)
Starring: Charley Grapewin, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son ..read more »

59% from 87 members

Beau Geste (1939)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Director: William A. Wellman
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Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.

68% from 44 members
Currently unavailable

Nothing Sacred on DVD (1937)
Starring: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
Director: William A. Wellman
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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 ..read more »

58% from 376 members

A Star Is Born on DVD (1937)
Starring: Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, Adolphe Menjou
Director: Willam A Wellman, William A. Wellman
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A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 featuring Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand, this, the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declinig in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star.

63% from 182 members

The Public Enemy (1931)
Starring: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Jean Harlow
Director: William A. Wellman
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Tale of two brothers of two walks of life

76% from 1,061 member
Not currently released

Gene Tierney Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, William A. Well
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Features the Gene Tierney films THUNDER BIRDS, TOBACCO ROAD, LAURA, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, and THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR.

70% from 416 members

William A. Wellman facts

5 most recent films

Track Of The Cat - 3.0 stars
The High And Mighty - 3.5 stars
Battleground - 3.0 stars
Yellow Sky - 3.5 stars
Yellow Sky - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Public Enemy - 4.0 stars
The Ghost And Mrs Muir - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Laura - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
The Ox-Bow Incident - 3.5 stars
Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Yellow Sky - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Roxie Hart - 3.0 stars
Beau Geste - 3.5 stars
Lady of Burlesque - 2.5 stars
Thunder Birds - Gene Tierney Collection - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Rex Harrison - 7 times - show films
Jeanne Crain - 7 times - show films
Preston Foster - 7 times - show films
Gene Tierney - 7 times - show films
George Sanders - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Ford - 7 times - show films
Otto Preminger - 7 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 2 times - show films
John M. Stahl - 2 times - show films
Willam A Wellman - 2 times - show films