Will Wright Movies

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Anothe...

Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money...

An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to...

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas...

The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians...

Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the sim...

A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right...

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Edgar Appletree learns the ins and outs of family feuding courtesy of Charlie McCarthy.

A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Ca...

Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the...