Direction: Irvin Willat
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Irvin Willat. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Old Louisiana
1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Tom Keene · Rita Hayworth · Robert Fiske · Ray Bennett
Plot The setting is 1803 and the Louisiana Purchase is imminent. Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But...
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The False Faces
1919 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Henry B. Walthall · Mary Anderson · Lon Chaney · Milton Ross
Plot During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to...
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The Grim Game
1919 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Harry Houdini · Thomas Jefferson · Ann Forrest · Augustus Phillips
Plot Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée...
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Down Home
1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Leatrice Joy · James O. Barrows · Edward Hearn · Aggie Herring
Plot Nance Pelot is bravely trying to support herself and her father Joe, the town drunk, by playing piano in an unsavory roadside inn owned by Larry Shayne. Chet Todd, the...
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Below the Surface
1920 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Hobart Bosworth · Grace Darmond · Lloyd Hughes · George Webb
Plot A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken...
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The Michigan Kid
1928 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Conrad Nagel · Renée Adorée · Lloyd Whitlock · Fred Esmelton
Plot The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood...
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Behind the Door
1919 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Hobart Bosworth · Jane Novak · Wallace Beery · James Gordon
Plot A German-American naval officer takes revenge against the German submarine commander who brutalized his wife.
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
1923 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Malcolm McGregor · Billie Dove · Lon Chaney · William Orlamond
Plot Joel Shore is made captain of the whaling schooner formerly headed by his courageous and admired brother, Mark, who was lost at sea. Accompanied by his bride, who suspects Joel...
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