Direction: Crane Wilbur
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Crane Wilbur. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 18
Canon City
1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Crane Wilbur
Cast Scott Brady · Jeff Corey · Whit Bissell · Stanley Clements
Plot 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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The Bat
1959 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Crane Wilbur
Cast Vincent Price · Agnes Moorehead · Gavin Gordon · John Sutton
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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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Broadway Brevities (TV Series)
1931 · Series · 40 min. · United States
Direction Roy Mack · Alfred J. Goulding · Joseph Henabery · Crane Wilbur
Cast Ruth Etting · Red Skelton · Russ Brown · Hal Le Roy
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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.
Plot 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
Plot 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....
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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
Plot 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...
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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.
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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....
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The Declaration of Independence (S)
1938 · Movie · 17 min. · United States
Direction Crane Wilbur
Cast Ted Osborne · John Litel · Rosella Towne · Owen King
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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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I Won't Play (S)
1944 · Movie · 18 min. · United States
Direction Crane Wilbur
Cast Dane Clark · Robert Shayne · Janis Paige · Warren Douglas
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