List of the best William Wright movies: Reveille With Beverly(1943), Escape in the Fog(1945), The Mask of Diijon(1946), Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood(1942), One Mysterious Night(1944), Down Missouri Way(1946), A Night to Remember(1942), Impact(1949), China Clipper(1936) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
78 Minutes
Ann Miller William Wright Dick Purcell Franklin Pangborn Larry Parks
disc jockey switchboard operator millionaire chauffeur station manager soldier charming witty radio station military base party office car jazz military life deception new love world war ii switched identities transformation
Beverly Ross moderates an 5:30 am radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Nina Foch William Wright Otto Kruger Konstantin Shayne Ivan Triesault Ernie S. Adams Mary Newton Ralph Dunn John Tyrrell Charles Jordan Noel Cravat
nurse government agent spy shop owner henchman stranger engaging tense san francisco hotel lobby repair shop bridge house espionage secret documents undercover operations world war ii post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares
During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.
Horror
USA
1946
73 Minutes
Erich von Stroheim Jeanne Bates William Wright Mauritz Hugo Hope Landin Robert Malcolm Shimen Ruskin Edward Van Sloan Denise Vernac Roy Darmour Antonio Filauri
A stage illusionist's comeback attempt results in his humiliation. He plots to revenge himself by hypnotizing people into committing murders for him.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
68 Minutes
Chester Morris George E. Stone Richard Lane William Wright Constance Worth Lloyd Corrigan Forrest Tucker
ex-convict police detective sidekick millionaire jewel thief nemesis lighthearted engaging new york city los angeles mansion apartment police station hollywood, calif. diamond heist mistaken identity wrongfully accused cross-dressing investigation disguise
Boston Blackie and his pal, The Runt, are ready to board a train for Florida when Blackie gets a telegram from his friend Arthur Manleder asking Blackie to go to Manleder's New York ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
61 Minutes
Chester Morris Richard Lane Janis Carter William Wright Robert Williams George E. Stone Dorothy Malone Lyle Latell Mark Roberts
thief sidekick inspector reporter manager sister spirited suspenseful engaging hotel police station chinese restaurant apartment pawn shop jewelry theft amateur detectives impersonation disguise kidnapping redemption
Blackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
73 Minutes
Martha O'Driscoll John Carradine Eddie Dean William Wright Renee Godfrey
professor director movie star movie producer mule amusing playful touching ozark mountains farm film set college vacation filmmaking animal taming farming jealousy love adventure 1940s
Jane Colwell, an associate professor at an agricultural college, thinks that a trained mule she has been working with needs a rest and takes him to her farm. There she finds a film company ... See full summary »
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
91 Minutes
Loretta Young Brian Aherne Sidney Toler Jeff Donnell William Wright Gale Sondergaard Donald MacBride Lee Patrick Don Costello Blanche Yurka Richard Gaines
writer wife landlord housekeeper husband amusing engaging suspenseful apartment new york city greenwich village murder blackmail deception mystery discovery 1940s
A mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.
Crime, Drama
1949
111 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Ella Raines Charles Coburn Helen Walker Anna May Wong Mae Marsh Tony Barrett William Wright Robert Warwick Philip Ahn Art Baker
A declared-dead man (Brian Donlevy) hides out with a widow (Ella Raines) after his wife and her lover botch his murder.
Drama
USA
1936
85 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Ross Alexander Beverly Roberts Humphrey Bogart Marie Wilson Henry B. Walthall Joseph Crehan Joe King Addison Richards Ruth Robinson Wayne Morris
engineer entrepreneur business partner aviator wife father gripping thrilling inspiring washington, d.c. new york city airplane honolulu cuba father/son relationship husband/wife relationship business aviation aspirations work vs. family
Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.