Arizona 1940  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Regis Toomey, George Chandler, Byron Foulger, Edgar Buchanan, Colin Tapley
Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur) is a rough-and-tumble woman who becomes involved with Peter Muncie (William Holden), and together they clean up the area around Tucson.
|  | |
Arsene Lupin Returns 1938  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, Monty Woolley, E.E. Clive, George Zucco, Tully Marshall
A famous jewel comes to France, so can an equally famous jewel thief (Melvyn Douglas) be far behind? The police think he is dead, so the gamble could succeed. The original "Arsene Lupin" (1932) starred John and Lionel Barrymore.
| | |
The Case of the Howling Dog 1934 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alan Crosland
Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell, Helen Trenholme, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Gordon Westcott, Harry Tyler, Arthur Aylesworth
This is the first film of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, and the series continued for five more movies; Warren William stars as our hero defender in the first four. Unlike the sober entries starring Raymond Burr, these are light-hearted, if not as well written and acted. In this episode, Perry gets involved in a family feud that ends up in murder. He amazes all as he identifies the killer in the courtroom.
| | |
The Case of the Lucky Legs 1935 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Barton MacLane, Peggy Shannon, Porter Hall, Craig Reynolds, Henry O'Neill
Margie (Patricia Ellis) wins the Lucky Lady contest, but the shady promoter probably has skipped town with the prize money. Perry Mason (Warren William) is called in to help find him, which he does–but the promoter is dead. Whodunit? Good, humorous entry.
| | |
The Case of the Velvet Claws 1936 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Wini Shaw, Bill Elliott, Joe King, Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Olin Howland, Kenneth Harlan, Clara Blandick
Well, what-do-you-know, Perry Mason (Warren William) marries his faithful secretary, Della Street (Claire Dodd). But before they can take off on their honeymoon, Perry is hired (at gunpoint) to stop an article from being printed in a scandal sheet. It turns out that the woman behind the gun is the wife of the publisher of the paper, and she will do anything to ensure that her affair with another is not made public. Fast-paced, fun mystery.
| | |
 Cleopatra 1934  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Irving Pichel, Ian Maclaren, John Carradine, Arthur Hohl, Edwin Maxwell, Eleanor Phelps, Leonard Mudie, William Farnum
Good performances enhance this excellent film that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for Best Picture. Claudette Colbert easily handles the title role of the seductive Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, who uses her wiles on the Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Warren William). Then, after Caesar is killed, she turns her attentions to Caesar's rival, Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon), and enters into a romance destined for tragedy.
| | |
Counter-Espionage 1942 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Forrest Tucker, Kurt Katch, Matthew Boulton, Morton Lowry, Billy Bevan
The Lone Wolf is in London during the Nazi bombing blitz and becomes involved with Nazi spies. Blore continues to add a comedy touch in his role of our hero's butler.
| | |
The Dark Horse 1932 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Warren William, Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Vivienne Osborne, Sam Hardy, Robert Warwick, Harry Holman, Charles Sellon, Robert Emmett O'Connor
This political satire features a less-than-competent gubernatorial candidate (Guy Kibbee) who is promoted by a devious campaign manager (Warren William) and his cohort (Bette Davis).
| | |
The Dragon Murder Case 1934  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Eugene Pallette, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, George E. Stone, George Meeker, Etienne Girardot, Robert Warwick
Warren William takes over the role of sophisticated sleuth Philo Vance in this not-too-great entry. There are many suspects when deaths occur in the "dragon pool" at the wealthy Stamm residence. But Philo Vance is able to sort through the clues to find the culprit. William was concurrently playing Perry Mason in another series and would later star in the "Lone Wolf" series.
| | |
Go West, Young Man 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson, Lyle Talbot, Isabel Jewell, Margaret Perry, Etienne Girardot, Maynard Holmes, John Indrisano, Nick Stewart, Charles Irwin, Walter Walker
Movie star Mavis Arden (Mae West), who expects to get her own way, ends up stranded at a remote boarding house where she decides to have fun with good-looking gas station mechanic Bud Norton (Randolph Scott). The attraction lasts–until Mavis fears commitment and backs off from the relationship.
| | |
 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Billy Barty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Busby Berkeley, Charles(1) Lane, Tammany Young
This musical proved so popular that two sequels were made: one in 1935 and another in 1937. Unemployed showgirls Carol (Joan Blondell), Polly (Ruby Keeler), and Trixie (Aline MacMahon) want to perform in a musical, and IF Polly will play the lead, singer-composer Brad Roberts (Dick Powell) will foot the bill. Brad and Polly are in love, but Brad's wealthy family disapproves and will stop at nothing to break them up–but they fail, and the show goes on. Ginger Rogers sings "We're in the Money" while wearing only silver dollars in one of the great Busby Berkeley production numbers.
| | |
The Gracie Allen Murder Case 1939 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor, Jed Prouty, Jerome Cowan, Donald MacBride, H.B. Warner, William Demarest, Richard Denning, Judith Barrett
The screenplay for this Philo Vance (Warren William) mystery/comedy was written especially for scatterbrained comedienne Gracie Allen. Gracie was witness to a murder and agrees to help Philo Vance by giving her recollections, which are crazy enough to drive Vance to a point of distraction. However, he comes up with the killer in due course.
| | |
Imitation of Life 1934 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John M. Stahl
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Rochelle Hudson, Fredi Washington, Alan Hale, Clarence Wilson, Henry Armetta, Henry Kolker, Paul Porcasi, Wyndham Standing, Franklin Pangborn, Dennis O'Keefe, Fred "Snowflake" Toones
This is the film adaptation of the Fannie Hurst novel about mothers Bea Pullman and Delilah Johnson (Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers) and daughters Jessie (Rochelle Hudson as 18-year-old Jessie) and Peola (Fredi Washington as 16-year-old Peola) whose relationships become difficult. Bea and Delilah open a pancake restaurant that proves to be very successful. But, despite success in their professional lives, problems rise to the fore with their daughters. Jessie falls in love with her mother's boyfriend (Warren William). Meanwhile, light-skinned Peola decides to pass herself off as White and breaks Delilah's heart. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture.
| | |
Lady for a Day 1933 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Jean Parker, Nat Pendleton, Barry Norton, Halliwell Hobbes
Apple Annie (May Robson) is a 75-year-old seller of apples in Times Square in this Damon Runyon tale, and she knows how to extract money from the other peddlers. She sends money to her daughter (Jean Parker) in Spain, implying she is wealthy in her letters to the daughter. Now the daughter is visiting, and Apple Annie needs help, so she goes to gambler Dave the Dude (Warren William) to set her up for the visit. Now the fun begins. Good flick. Sequel: "Lady By Choice." Capra remade the story in 1961 as "Pocketful of Miracles."
| | |
Lillian Russell 1940 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William, Leo Carrillo, Nigel Bruce, Helen Westley, Dorothy Peterson, Ernest Truex
Alice Faye portrays 1890s' Broadway star Lillian Russell and sings such classics as "After the Ball" and "The Band Played On" in this musical presentation.
| | |
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date 1941 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett, Eric Blore, Thurston Hall, Jed Prouty, Fred Kelsey, Don Beddoe, Lester Matthews, Edward Gargan
Not one of the better entries in the series as our reformed jewel thief comes to the rescue of another beautiful woman who is carrying ransom money for a kidnapped millionaire.
| | |
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady 1940 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Warren William, Jean Muir, Eric Blore, Victor Jory, Roger Pryor, Warren Hull, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Bruce Bennett, Luis Alberni
The Lone Wolf (William) is back in action when he comes to the aid of a socialite whose necklace is stolen by her ex-husband as she is about to wed again. Another lighthearted entry in the series.
| | |
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt 1939 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler, Ralph Morgan, Tom Dugan, Don Beddoe, Marc Lawrence, Ben Welden, Irving Bacon
Warren William takes on the role of reformed jewel thief Michael Lanyard in a new series of Lone Wolf films. B-grade all the way, but enjoyable, with a good mix of mystery and humor. In this one, spies abduct Lanyard in an attempt to have him help steal secret anti-aircraft gun plans.
| | |
The Lone Wolf Strikes 1940 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Warren William, Joan Perry, Eric Blore, Alan Baxter, Astrid Allwyn, Montagu Love, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe, Fred Kelsey, Addison Richards
Our hero, the reformed jewel thief, comes to the rescue of another damsel in distress whose pearls have been stolen.
| | |
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance 1941 76 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Warren William, June Storey, Henry Wilcoxon, Eric Blore, Thurston Hall, Don Beddoe, Evalyn Knapp, Regis Toomey, Lloyd Bridges, Fred Kelsey
Framed for murder, the Lone Wolf (Warren William) breaks up a counterfeit ring in the process of clearing his name.
| | |
Madame X 1937  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen, William Henry, Henry Daniell, Philip Reed, Lynne Carver, Emma Dunn, Ruth Hussey
One of the many films based on Alexandre Bisson's weepy story has Gladys George in the role of Jacqueline Fleuriot who, after an affair, leaves her diplomat husband and son. Her life spirals downward into prostitution and beyond. Twenty years later, after killing a man who was out to get her son, she goes on trial and is defended by the son who does not know who she is. 1 User Review
| User Review |
| | Anonymous 03/21/2007 | | This is just a wonderful film and I cannot believe that Gladys George wasen't nominated for an academy award for her supurb performance. What were the voters thinking that year.? |
|
| | |
 The Man in the Iron Mask 1939 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Miles Mander, Bert Roach, Walter Kingsford, Marion Martin, Montagu Love, Peter Cushing, Albert Dekker, Doris Kenyon
This is a good rendition of Alexandre Dumas' classic story of twin brothers (both played by Louis Hayward)–one becomes the King of France and the other is sprung from prison and raised by the Three Musketeers (Alan Hale, Miles Mander, and Bert Roach). The renegade brother is forced to wear an iron mask to hide the fact that he is the legitimate heir to the throne, else his brother would do him in. Elaborate adventure. Look for Peter Cushing as a messenger to the King in his first screen role.
| | |
The Mouthpiece 1932 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Flood
Cast: Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, William Janney, John Wray, Mae Madison, Paulette Goddard, Guy Kibbee, J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Ince
Vincent Day (Warren William) is a prosecutor who becomes involved in corruption and takes over the defense of underworld figures. This film was later remade twice–as "The Man Who Talked Too Much" and "Illegal."
| | |
One Dangerous Night 1943 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Warren William, Eric Blore, Mona Barrie, Marguerite Chapman, Tala Birell, Margaret Hayes, Ann Savage, Thurston Hall, Warren Ashe, Fred Kelsey
An ex-jewel thief detective (Warren William) has his hands full as he is accused–by both the good guys and bad guys–of killing a blackmailer. A good entry. A future Lone Wolf, Gerald Mohr, has a small role.
| | |
Passport to Suez 1943 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges, Jay Novello, Gavin Muir, Frederick Worlock, Sig Arno
Private detective Lone Wolf (Warren William) visits the Suez Canal area and double-crosses Nazis who are trying to destroy the Allied shipping route.
| | |
The Secret Bride 1934 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Warren William, Glenda Farrell, Grant Mitchell, Arthur Byron, Henry O'Neill, Douglass Dumbrille, Arthur Aylesworth, William B. Davidson, Russell Hicks
Not until AFTER his secret wedding to the governor's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) does the state's attorney general (Warren William) learn about evidence linking his new father-in-law, the governor (Arthur Byron), to illegal activities. Together, the couple works to help clear the governor's name.
| | |
Secrets of the Lone Wolf 1941 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Victor Kilian, Marlo Dwyer, John Harmon
A pretty good episode in the series as our hero's trusty butler (Eric Blore) is mistaken for his boss by jewel thieves. The butler is forced to aid in the theft of the Napoleon jewels, which have been entrusted to the Lone Wolf's protection during a steamship voyage.
| | |
Strange Illusion 1945  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Out of the Night
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt, George Reed, Jayne Hazard, Sonia Sorel, John Hamilton, Pierre Watkin
Paul (Jimmy Lydon) has been having nightmares in which his father, who was killed under suspicious circumstances, warns him that a stranger will threaten his family. True to his dreams, smooth Brett (Warren William) shows up to woo Paul's mother (Sally Eilers). Paul investigates and puts himself in danger. An interesting takeoff on "Hamlet." 1 User Review
| User Review |
| | Hamlet-like plot in modern (1945) setting | darknessatnoon 01/10/2007 | | Quite enjoyed it... not quite film noir... moves well... mostly plausible... framing device is hokily done (but so was Bill's)... cast looks familiar from 1950s TV Superman series. |
|
| | |
Three on a Match 1932 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lyle Talbot, Patricia Ellis, Sheila Terry, Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Virginia Davis, Anne Shirley, Betty Carse, Allen Jenkins, Edward Arnold
Schoolmates from the past–actress Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), high-society matron Vivian Revere (Ann Dvorak), and Ruth Westcott (Bette Davis)–meet at a restaurant and use one match to light their cigarettes. Over the next years, Vivian divorces Henry (Warren William), leaves her baby son with him, and marries gambler Mike (Lyle Talbot). Mary marries Henry, and Ruth works as the baby's governess. By now, Vivian is a drug addict and alcoholic and has become involved in a plot to kidnap her own son when her husband Mike hires "Harve the Mug" (Humphrey Bogart) to perform the kidnapping. During the kidnapping, both Vivian and her son are taken captive, but Vivian jumps out of a window, and the police rescue her son.
| | |
Wild Geese Calling 1941 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Ona Munson, Barton MacLane, Russell Simpson, Iris Adrian, James C. Morton, Stanley Andrews, Mary Field
During the 1890s the Murdocks, John (Henry Fonda) and Sally (Joan Bennett), trudge from Oregon to Alaska. John suspects Sally is being unfaithful while, in reality, she is pregnant.
| | |
Wives Under Suspicion 1938 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Whale
Cast: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Constance Moore, Ralph Morgan, William Lundigan, Cecil Cunningham, Samuel S. Hinds, Jonathan Hale, Lillian Yarbo, Milburn Stone, J. Anthony Hughes, James Flavin, Minerva Urecal, Edwin Stanley
District Attorney Jim Stowell (Warren William) has earned his reputation as a ruthless man who believes that execution should be the only sentence for first-degree murderers. While prosecuting Professor Shaw McAllen (Ralph Morgan) who is accused of murdering his wife, Stowell realizes that events in his own married life with his wife Lucy (Gail Patrick) closely parallel those of McAllen and his murdered wife. Compassion takes over as Stowell reflects on the circumstances and reasons that the death penalty may not always be the correct sentence.
| | |
 The Wolf Man 1941 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Drama / Horror
Director: George Waggner
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Fay Helm, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leyland Hodgson, J.M. Kerrigan, Forrester Harvey, Harry Cording, Gibson Gowland, Olaf Hytten
Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), while attempting to prevent a wolf from mauling Jenny Williams (Fay Helm), is bitten by the animal. When he revives, Larry finds that Jenny is dead and lying by her side is Bela (Bela Lugosi). Bela is a wolf man, and now that he has bitten Larry, Larry will be transformed into a werewolf every time that there is a full moon. Larry confesses his fate to his father Sir John (Claude Rains) and to his sweetheart Gwen (Evelyn Ankers), but they do not believe him–until they are forced to confront the curse one fateful night during a full moon.
| | |
| 1. Arizona (1940)
2. Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
3. The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
4. The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
5. The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
6. The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
7. Cleopatra (1934)
8. Counter-Espionage (1942)
9. The Dark Horse (1932)
10. The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
11. Go West, Young Man (1936)
12. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
13. The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
14. Imitation of Life (1934)
15. Lady for a Day (1933)
16. Lillian Russell (1940)
17. The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1941)
18. The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
19. The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
20. The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
21. The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
22. Madame X (1937)
23. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
24. The Mouthpiece (1932)
25. One Dangerous Night (1943)
26. Passport to Suez (1943)
27. The Secret Bride (1934)
28. Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)
29. Strange Illusion (1945)
aka: Out of the Night
30. Three on a Match (1932)
31. Wild Geese Calling (1941)
32. Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
33. The Wolf Man (1941)
In The News
|
