Cast: Will Wright
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Will Wright. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
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Adam's Rib
1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell
Synopsis Domestic and professional tensions mount when husband Adam Bonner and his wife Amanda work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
7.8
10K votes
7.8
10K votes
Cape Fear
1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Gregory Peck · Robert Mitchum · Polly Bergen · Lori Martin
Synopsis Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden...
7.5
8K votes
7.5
8K votes
They Live by Night
1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast Cathy O'Donnell · Farley Granger · Howard Da Silva · Jay C. Flippen
Synopsis In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Act of Violence
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Van Heflin · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Mary Astor
Synopsis War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a...
7.2
450 votes
7.2
450 votes
The Tall Men
1955 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Clark Gable · Jane Russell · Robert Ryan · Cameron Mitchell
Synopsis Ben Allison and his brother Clint journey to Montana in search of gold. They come upon wealthy businessman Nathan Stark who talks them into becoming partners with him on a cattle drive to Montana. As they travel to Texas, they...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Niagara
1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea
Synopsis George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the...
7.0
5K votes
7.0
5K votes
The Inside Story
1948 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Marsha Hunt · William Lundigan · Charles Winninger · Gail Patrick
Synopsis 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 hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake...
6.9
38 votes
6.9
38 votes
House by the River
1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Louis Hayward · Lee Bowman · Jane Wyatt · Dorothy Patrick
Synopsis The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. His crippled brother John Byrne coincidently comes to his house in that moment, and...
6.9
917 votes
6.9
917 votes
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast George Sanders · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Ella Raines · Sara Allgood
Synopsis Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition...
6.8
552 votes
6.8
552 votes
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Van Heflin · Tab Hunter · Kathryn Grant · James Darren
Synopsis Rancher Lee Hackett is one of the old breed, used to making his own laws and settling things with a gun. He has tried to make his two sons in his own image, and with the elder he has more...
6.7
330 votes
6.7
330 votes
The Raid
1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Hugo Fregonese
Cast Van Heflin · Anne Bancroft · Richard Boone · Lee Marvin
Synopsis A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont.
6.6
210 votes
6.6
210 votes
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · William Bendix · Howard Da Silva
Synopsis When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides...
6.5
797 votes
6.5
797 votes
The Walls of Jericho
1948 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Cornel Wilde · Linda Darnell · Anne Baxter · Kirk Douglas
Synopsis After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julian Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria Wedge, the new bride of Dave's best friend, Tucker Wedge,...
6.4
124 votes
6.4
124 votes
The Wild One
1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Laslo Benedek
Cast Marlon Brando · Mary Murphy · Robert Keith · Lee Marvin
6.4
3K votes
6.4
3K votes
Paula
1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Loretta Young · Alexander Knox · Tommy Rettig · Otto Hulett
Synopsis Distraught after her second miscarriage & learning definitively she could never have children Paula, while driving at night, accidentally injures a child. Confused and due to her commitment to attend a function that honors her husband she doesn't follow the...
6.4
48 votes
6.4
48 votes
An Act of Murder
1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Fredric March · Edmond O'Brien · Florence Eldridge · Geraldine Brooks
Synopsis A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
6.4
40 votes
6.4
40 votes
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Bickford · Ralph Bellamy · Rod Steiger
Synopsis The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of America's armed forces still think of the airplane as little...
6.3
476 votes
6.3
476 votes
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn
Synopsis Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof socialite Christine Gilbert
6.3
70 votes
6.3
70 votes
Bat Masterson (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Alan Crosland Jr. · Eddie Davis · Walter Doniger · John Rich
Cast Gene Barry · Allison Hayes · Ken Drake · Troy Melton
6.3
29 votes
6.3
29 votes
The Tell-Tale Heart (S)
1941 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Jules Dassin
Cast Joseph Schildkraut · Roman Bohnen · Oscar O’Shea · Will Wright
Synopsis In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
6.3
166 votes
6.3
166 votes