Cast: Will Wright

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Will Wright. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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