Direction: Crane Wilbur

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Crane Wilbur. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Canon City

1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Scott Brady · Jeff Corey · Whit Bissell · Stanley Clements

Synopsis This movie centers around a prison escape from the Colorado State Penitentiary. There are 12 escapees and it shows the efforts placed to capture these men.

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6.2

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The Bat

1959 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Vincent Price · Agnes Moorehead · Gavin Gordon · John Sutton

Synopsis Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank...

5.5

198 votes

5.5

198 votes

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Steve Cochran · David Brian · Phil Carey · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis Another in a unrelated series of Warner's penitentiary tours in three different decades. This one is California's notorious Folsom Prison prior to its 1944 reformation make-over. Ben Rickey, the prison's sadistic old-school warden who believes that the prison system if...

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We're in the Legion Now

1936 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Reginald Denny · Esther Ralston · Vince Barnett · Eleanor Hunt

Synopsis Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.

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Yellow Cargo

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Conrad Nagel · Eleanor Hunt · Vince Barnett · Jack La Rue

Synopsis An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.

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High School Girl

1934 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Helen MacKellar · Mahlon Hamilton · Cecilia Parker · Carlyle Moore Jr.

Synopsis A biology teacher helps two teenagers who have strict and neglectful parents.

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The Story of Molly X

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast June Havoc · John Russell · Dorothy Hart · Connie Gilchrist

Synopsis Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob...

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The People's Enemy

1935 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Preston Foster · Melvyn Douglas · Shirley Grey · Roscoe Ates

Synopsis Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a...

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Tomorrow's Children

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Diane Sinclair · Donald Douglas · John Preston · Carlyle Moore Jr.

Synopsis A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her brothers are crippled,...

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House of Women

1962 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Walter Doniger · Crane Wilbur

Cast Shirley Knight · Andrew Duggan · Constance Ford · Barbara Nichols

Synopsis Drama about a young woman, Erica, who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years, where she faces deplorable conditions. With the aid of the warden, she sets out to prove her innocence.

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The Patient in Room 18

1938 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur · Bobby Connolly

Cast Patric Knowles · Ann Sheridan · Eric Stanley · John Ridgely

Synopsis Lance is sent to the hospital to recuperate from a nervous breakdown. At the hospital, Sara is his nurse and she still holds a grudge from the last court case. At the hospital, a wealthy patient has just donated $100,000...

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Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Ted Osborne · John Litel · Rosella Towne · Owen King

Synopsis This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware, who cast the deciding vote so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776.

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Swingtime in the Movies (S)

1938 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Fritz Feld · Kathryn Kane · John Carroll · Charley Foy

Synopsis In this musical short, a director named Nitvitch, unhappy with the lead actress in his Western, makes an unexpected discovery in the studio cafe where some big stars are being served by a bevy of beautiful singing, dancing waitresses.

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Navy Spy

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur · Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Conrad Nagel · Eleanor Hunt · Judith Allen · Jack Doyle

Synopsis A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.

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Outside the Wall

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Richard Basehart · Marilyn Maxwell · Signe Hasso · Dorothy Hart

Synopsis Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for...

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The Devil on Wheels

1947 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Crane Wilbur

Cast Noreen Nash · Darryl Hickman · Terry Moore · Lenita Lane

Synopsis A teenage hotrodder, following his reckless father's example, drives too fast gets involved in a hit and run accident. Later he discovers that the victim was his own mother.

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