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  • The Public Enemy
  • The Public Enemy review by A customer from Preston
    Rated - 4.0 stars 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 61 members
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  • The High And Mighty on DVD (1954)
    Starring: John Wayne
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 151 members
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  • Battleground on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Van Johnson,  Ricardo Montalban,  George Murphy
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 600 members
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  • Magic Town on DVD (1947)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Jane Wyman,  Ann Doran
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 190 members
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  • Buffalo Bill on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Joel McCrea,  Maureen O'Hara,  Linda Darnell
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 103 members
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  • The Ox-Bow Incident on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Dana Andrews,  Mary Beth Hughes
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 349 members
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  • Roxie Hart (1942)
    Starring: Ginger Rogers,  Nigel Bruce,  Ted North
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 14 members
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  • Beau Geste (1939)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Ray Milland,  Robert Preston
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 44 members
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  • Nothing Sacred on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Carole Lombard,  Fredric March,  Charles Winninger
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 376 members
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  • A Star Is Born on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Fredric March,  Janet Gaynor,  Adolphe Menjou
    Director: Willam A Wellman,  William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 182 members
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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