William Wyler Filmography
William Wyler Filmography
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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorWilliam Wyler directs his first silent short.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorJack Mower is the featured player in this Mustang Western in which a band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of firearms, to hold up the owner and make way with the payroll. Jack, as the new foreman, trails them and in a running fight unhorses them, one by one. He has a hand-to-hand encounter with the leader of the band but subdues him also, and of course, wins the girl. There is the usual quota of riding and fighting, and the absence of "gats" gives an out of the ordinary touch. Audiences that like Westerns will probably find it of average entertainment value.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorRobert Kane, owner of the Bar-L Ranch, has received word from his attorney that he will have to marry Ann Scott before the 15th of the month, whom he has never met, or else lose the title to the Vista Water Company, which Ann has inherited under the condition that she be married. There is dirty-work afoot, instigated by a lawyer.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorAn irascible and brutal boss, Will King, owner of the Deux Croix ranch, sends his employees back on the slightest pretext. A bum who is looking for a bad move, shows up on the ranch pretending to be an experienced cowboy.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerFay WrayJanet GaynorNancy Burton, niece of the sheriff, is in love with Deputy Tom Farrell, but she as an aversion to bloodshed. She overhears that he shot and killed an outlaw three years in the past. He swears to her that it never happened but she does not believe him. Later her uncle tells he that it was he who killed the outlaw, Trevis, in the line of duty. She also learns that the brother of Trevis, seeking revenge, is on his way to kill Farrell.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerVelma ConnorBilly EngleA ranch owner who has inherited his property and consequently fled the walled cities and his relatives has his seclusion invaded by an aunt, her son and the supposed fiancée of the latter, a charming girl. To get rid of them Jack gets his side partner, the cook of the ranch, to tell them he is dead. That doesn't accomplish anything, for they proceed to take possession on the score that they are the next of kin and consequently the rightful heirs. The heroine, fleeing the importunities of the aunt to marry Cyril, is rescued from a buckboard runaway by the hero, who tells her for some unexplained reason that he is the notorious bad man of the district. Ultimately the city trio escape in their auto from the menial tasks they have been performing around the ranch, but in so doing fall into the hands of the real bad man and his associates in crime. They are rescued by the hero and "all's well with the world."
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanMarie TorpieEdmund CobbIt looks as though the heroine's father is in league with fur thieves, but he is not and he emerges with a clean bill of health at the end. Also the chief villain, not content with robbing the old man of his furs, has also plotted the theft of his fair daughter. He nearly succeeds, but the resourceful Martin blocks both games.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsArt AcordFay WrayRobert GordonRance Lighton, a lazy wanderer, is arrested for vagrancy and taken to the Rogers Ranch, where Dickie Rogers, an invalid child who is confined to a wheelchair, takes a liking to the stranger.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred HumesLouise LorraineWilliam BaileyTwo friends return to America after serving in the Great War. Suffering from shell shock, Frank is helpless and Breezy has become his de facto caregiver. Strangers now run Frank's home, the Wilcox Ranch. Breezy goes to investigate.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund CobbElsa BenhamHoward DaviesCobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father's dying wish is that she should marry Rasker, who will stop at nothing to get the gal.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund Cobb
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanAlma Rayford
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund CobbHazel Keener
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred HumesEna GregoryChurchill RossI saw this film at the Lone Pine Film Festival in 2019. The movie was screened from a DVD provided specially by the Library of Congress archive. The music for the silent film was played live by a pianist in the auditorium. The movie is not currently available commercially. Smilin' Sam Perry (Fred Humes) is a rancher who has taken out a loan with the local Shylock, Ezra Skinner (Bernard Siegel). Skinner warns him the note is coming due, but Sam is unconcerned because he has money coming in on the stage. Meanwhile, Dude Dutton (Bruce Gordon) has been cultivating the friendship of invalid Jim Morgan (Churchill Ross) in order to get close to Jim's sister Milly (Ena Gregory). Jim wants to move somewhere else, but they cannot because they don't have the money. Dude confides to Jim that he knows a way they can get the money. The next day, when Sam checks with the stage office, he learns the stage was robbed and his money is gone. Jim however, exultantly tells Milly he won enough money at gambling to move out. She is suspicious, but agrees to move with him. Sam goes out to a line shack on his ranch with his foreman and is incensed to find a shepherd herding sheep on his land and kicks the shepherd out. Dude, leaving town in a hurry, runs into the shepherd and gives him money to buy the sheep and change clothes with him. He herds the sheep right back to the line shack however, and is summarily ejected by Sam, thinking he is the same shepherd he kicked out before. On the road, Dude encounters Jim and Milly, and suggests that if Jim wants to improve his health in the outdoors, he should take up sheep herding, and tells him he can live in the line shack. Jim and Milly move in to the shack, whereupon Sam is once again enraged to find sheep on his land, but softens when he meets Milly and agrees to help them. Milly hides Jim's money in the mattress, still suspecting he stole it. Sam resolves to find Milly a place in town, but the town's rough reputation worries him. He asks Ma Bascomb, (Eva Thatcher) who owns all the saloons in town, to help, and she makes the startling decision to close down all her saloons in the interest of cleaning up the town. Sam and Ma proceed to shut down all the saloons and gambling halls as a two-person temperance committee. (The movie was filmed during Prohibition.) Dude tries to sneak into the shack to steal the money, but is discovered and arrested for the stage robbery. He tries to shift the blame for the robbery on to Jim, but the sheriff (Max Asher) attests that Jim did indeed win the money gambling. Sam discovers that his money went to buy sheep, thus he now owns the flock. Milly shows him a little lamb, which Sam has to admit is cute.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTed WellsGarry O'DellBuck ConnorsJack Roberts and his sidekick, Malpai Joe, see John Hale and his nephew, Tom, attempting to run a bandit blockade with supplies for their mine; John is wounded by the outlaws, and Tom makes his getaway.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund CobbAlma Rayford
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanViolet La Plante
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsArt AcordLouise LorraineGilbert HolmesArt Alvord, a fancy-riding ranch hand with a mysteriously shady past, is challenged to a race by a gray-haired colonel, Jed Leach, who wins with dubious tactics.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanBarbara Worth
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanBud OsborneJ.P. Lockney
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanRhea Mitchell
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred Gilman
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred Gilman
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred Gilman
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanNancy DrexelJanet Gaynor