A Star Is Born (1937)
Drama | Romance
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander
Director: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming
A Star Is Born (1937)
Drama
The classic story about the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. A young woman arrives at Hollywood with dreams of stardom and with the help of a leading man achieves them, but his best days are behind him and she eclipses him.
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Lionel Stander, May Robson, Andy Devine
Director: William A. Wellman
The Public Enemy (1931)
Crime | Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Edward Woods, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Director: William A. Wellman
Yellow Sky (1948)
Crime | Western
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, James Barton
Director: William A. Wellman
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
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.
Starring: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Katherine DeMille, Sidney Toler
Director: William A. Wellman
Wings (1927)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
In this silent film, romantic rivals fly against the enemy in World War I.
Starring: Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, Henry B. Walthall
Director: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Battleground (1949)
Action | Drama | War
A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore
Director: William A. Wellman
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Crime | Drama | Western
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 on the spot.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Mary Beth Hughes, William Eythe, Harry Morgan
Director: William A. Wellman
