Will Wright Movies

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.

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle...

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife...

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...

Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of...

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

At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business....

In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inventor. When radiation in a nearby cave turns his...

Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.

This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles...

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...

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a...

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their...

Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun...

Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie...