List of the best William Pawley movies: Rough Riders' Round-Up(1939), Angels With Dirty Faces(1938), After Tomorrow(1932), Surrender(1931), Speak Easily(1932), Prairie Moon(1938), Kentucky Kernels(1934), Panama Lady(1939), The Trial of Vivienne Ware(1932), White Banners(1938), Gabriel Over the White House(1933), The Great American Broadcast(1941) ... ...
Western
USA
1939
55 Minutes
Arizona Jack Moray
Roy Rogers Lynne Roberts Raymond Hatton Eddie Acuff William Pawley Dorothy Sebastian George Meeker Jack Rockwell Guy Usher George Chesebro Glenn Strange
border patrol officer bandit gold smuggler young woman engineer friend gripping rousing spirited border arizona mexico mine ranch stagecoach outlaws missing persons smuggling murder justice
Now that the Spanish-American war is over, Roy and other Rough Riders become border patrolmen. Their goal is to stop outlaws who are stealing gold from stage coaches and express offices.
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
97 Minutes
Bugs (uncredited)
James Cagney Pat O'Brien Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan George Bancroft William Pawley John Hamilton Earle Dwire William Worthington
gangster priest child lawyer gritty emotional hell's kitchen street friendship crime corruption gangs sacrifice growing up rise 1930s
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Drama
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Malcolm Jarvis
Charles Farrell Marian Nixon Minna Gombell William Collier Josephine Hull William Pawley Greta Grandstedt Ferdinand Munier Nora Lane
Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
Drama
USA
1931
69 Minutes
Gourrut
Warner Baxter Leila Hyams Ralph Bellamy C. Aubrey Smith Alexander Kirkland William Pawley Howard Phillips George Andre Beranger Bodil Rosing Tom Ricketts
French POW Dumaine is sequestered near the castle of a prideful Prussian nobleman, Count Reinmacher, who lives for the day that his four sons will march triumphantly into Paris. Axelle, the... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1932
82 Minutes
Griffo
Buster Keaton Jimmy Durante Ruth Selwyn Thelma Todd Hedda Hopper William Pawley Sidney Toler Lawrence Grant Henry Armetta Edward Brophy
A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.
Western
USA
1938
58 Minutes
Jim "Legs" Barton
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Shirley Deane Tommy Ryan Walter Tetley David Gorcey Stanley Andrews William Pawley
gene autry sheriff sidekick old friend shopkeeper child suspenseful amusing melodramatic ranch sheriff's office barn general store town adoption cattle rustling death of father family scam inheritance
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
Comedy
USA
1934
74 Minutes
John Wakefield
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey George "Spanky" McFarland Mary Carlisle Noah Beery Lucille LaVerne Willie Best William Pawley Louis Mason Frank McGlynn Jr. Richard Alexander
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
64 Minutes
Panama Bartender
Lucille Ball Allan Lane Steffi Duna Evelyn Brent Donald Briggs Bernadene Hayes Abner Biberman William Pawley Earle Hodgins Joe Devlin
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon hooks up with a rough-and-tumble oil driller, who takes her to his oil-field in the jungle to show her what "real" life is like.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
56 Minutes
Joseph Gilk
Joan Bennett Donald Cook Skeets Gallagher ZaSu Pitts Lilian Bond Alan Dinehart Herbert Mundin Howard Phillips William Pawley
Incredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio.
Drama
USA
1938
88 Minutes
Joe Ellis
Claude Rains Fay Bainter Jackie Cooper Bonita Granville Henry O'Neill Kay Johnson James Stephenson J. Farrell MacDonald William Pawley John Ridgely Mary Field
housekeeper inventor teen boy daughter wife mechanic emotional moving indiana small town house inventions theft family mother/son relationship mentorship science love rise 1910s
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
Borell, Nick's henchman
Walter Huston Arthur Byron Karen Morley Franchot Tone Dickie Moore C. Henry Gordon David Landau Samuel S. Hinds William Pawley Jean Parker Claire DuBrey
president chief of staff secret police secretary of state lover gangster creative dark incredible white house washington, d.c. politics dictatorship crime visions divine intervention great depression transformation quest rise
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
92 Minutes
Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie Cesar Romero Four Ink Spots The Nicholas Brothers The Wiere Brothers James Newill Mary Beth Hughes Eula Morgan William Pawley
veteran electrician singer wealthy man friend cheery creative melodramatic airport new york city ohio boxing ring stage radio competition friendship romance marriage loyalty discovery
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Doris Kenyon Ralph Bellamy Tommy Conlon Raymond Borzage Beryl Mercer Sarah Padden Robert Homans Dawn O'Day Betty Jane Graham Louise Beavers
Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
73 Minutes
James Dunn Mae Clarke Neil Hamilton Sidney Toler Warren Hymer Stanley Fields Madge Bellamy Frank Melton Raymond Hatton Jack LaRue Arthur Treacher
Two reporters plan to marry but the bride is left waiting at the altar because her groom has gone undercover to expose gang activity.
Crime, Drama
1936
65 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Margaret Lindsay Cesar Romero Robert Armstrong Dick Foran Joe King Dick Purcell Addison Richards Hal K. Dawson Harry Hayden Alan Bridge
A G-man (Pat O'Brien) falls in love with the aloof ex-mate (Margaret Lindsay) of a gangster convict (Cesar Romero), who escapes.
Western
USA
1940
92 Minutes
Henry Fonda Gene Tierney Jackie Cooper Henry Hull John Carradine J. Edward Bromberg Donald Meek Eddie Collins George Barbier Ernest Whitman Charles Tannen
cowboy murderer news reporter young man woman tense confident missouri colorado wild west court search retribution murder robbery trial pursuit revenge 19th century
Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.