William Bakewell Movies

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Wolheim

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Stuart

Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Chester Morris

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Doris Day

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Carson

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willard Mack

Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Haines

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Madge Bellamy

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael Whalen

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Welford

The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fess Parker

The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shirley Grey

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jack Holt

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Arthur Lake

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Janet Martin

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Robson

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franchot Tone

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Robson

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Farr

A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maude Eburne

A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monte Blue

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Sinclair

Traveling north into Arizona, Cisco finds that someone committing robberies has been impersonating him and he is a wanted man. After retrieving some...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gilbert Roland

Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

Genre: Action

Cast: Frank Buck

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend...

Genre: War

Cast: Ben Lyon

Commando Cody, 'Sky Marshal of the Universe', works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards in the development of a flying suit and a...

Genre: Action

Cast: George D. Wallace

A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Ford

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Fay

New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

Auto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't throw an important race to his son Carl. Pop Reeves, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tim McCoy

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tim McCoy

A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Lewis

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marian Marsh

Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Starrett

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lake

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chester Morris

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor McLaglen

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

Genre: Action

Cast: William Boyd

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henrietta Crosman

After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chuck Connors

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Hardy

Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes....

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fess Parker

The 1930 Hollywood-produced anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" is one of the great works in film history. But like hardly any other cinema...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gert Heidenreich

Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neil Hamilton

Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Meighan

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.

Genre: Action

Cast: Frank Buck

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint"...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Sanders

When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charley Grapewin

During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Bakewell

A French spy (Mary Castle) flirts with an Indian chief's son (Jon Hall) amid war in 1753 Williamsburg, Va.

Genre: Western

Cast: Jon Hall

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Wayne

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Travis

Bill is a young man who arrives at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is an incorrigible know-all, and emerges a sober man. Meanwhile, Bill is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Mack Brown

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Hersholt

Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fess Parker

Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to...

Genre: Action

Cast: William Bakewell

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Carey

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Farrell

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Dorsey

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Linda Darnell

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community and rebuilds the faith of the residents. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Beal

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Miranda

King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic...

Genre: Western

Cast: Allan Lane

Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even...

Genre: Western

Cast: Allan Lane

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kathryn Grayson

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Russell

The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stuart Erwin

A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Charles Russell

A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lois Collier

Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Fess Parker

When architect Lee Ellis is discharged from his position in a large firm and has difficulty in finding a new job his devoted wife Mary invests in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Belle Bennett

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

Genre: Action

Cast: Louis Hayward

A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Morgan

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joseph Schildkraut

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Fontaine

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A sexy waitress becomes a house mother in a fraternity house and involves the college in a nationwide women's lib controversy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Connie Stevens

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lupe Vélez

A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anita Stewart