Direction: William McGann

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


The Stolen Jools (S)

1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction William McGann · John G. Adolfi · Victor Heerman · Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Buster Keaton · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wallace Beery

Plot Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft...

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

In Old California

1942 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast John Wayne · Binnie Barnes · Albert Dekker · Helen Parrish

Plot Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine,...

5.3

72 votes

5.3

72 votes

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Frontier Badmen

1943 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Ford Beebe · William McGann

Cast Robert Paige · Anne Gwynne · Noah Beery Jr. · Diana Barrymore

Plot A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set...

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Highway West

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Brenda Marshall · Arthur Kennedy · William Lundigan · Olympe Bradna

Plot A woman discovers her respectable husband is a notorious gangster.

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Two Against the World

1936 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Beverly Roberts · Linda Perry · Carlyle Moore Jr.

Plot Martha Carstairs was charged with murder twenty years earlier. Now, as her daughter Edith is about to be married to Malcolm Sims Jr., son of a wealthy industrialist, a sensationalistic...

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Alcatraz Island

1937 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast John Litel · Ann Sheridan · Mary Maguire · Gordon Oliver

Plot A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

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A Shot in the Dark

1941 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast William Lundigan · Nan Wynn · Ricardo Cortez · Regis Toomey

Plot Homicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders.

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Man of Iron

1935 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Barton MacLane · Mary Astor · John Eldredge · Dorothy Peterson

Plot A foreman becomes vice president, but devotes an increasing amount of time to inventing gadgets for his own home, until discontent leading to a riot among the men causes him...

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The Case of the Black Cat

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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American Empire

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Richard Dix · Leo Carrillo · Preston Foster · Frances Gifford

Plot This "Big Country" adventure follows three Civil War vets who head to Texas and build a cattle empire. The first man abandons ship, and he is soon followed by the...

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I Like Your Nerve

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Loretta Young · Henry Kolker · Claud Allister

Plot Young man attempts to break up an engagement between a woman and an older man.

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Marry the Girl

1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Mary Boland · Frank McHugh · Hugh Herbert · Carol Hughes

Plot The offices of a great newspaper syndicate are presided over by John B. Radway, obviously a nut, and his sister Ollie Radway, obviously the brains in the family. David "Party"...

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Girls on Probation

1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Jane Bryan · Ronald Reagan · Anthony Averill · Sheila Bromley

Plot Local bad girl Hilda convinces Connie to join her at a party and lends Connie a dress she "borrowed" from the cleaners where they both work. When the dress gets...

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Blackwell's Island

1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William McGann · Michael Curtiz

Cast John Garfield · Rosemary Lane · Dick Purcell · Victor Jory

Plot In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell's Island in 1934, reporter Tim Haydon breaks up a crime organization run by racketeer Bull Bransom...

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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Richard Dix · Kent Taylor · Edgar Buchanan · Frances Gifford

Plot Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.

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Sh! The Octopus

1937 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Hugh Herbert · Allen Jenkins · Marcia Ralston · John Eldredge

Plot Detectives Kelly and Dempsey are trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus an a mysterious crime figure named after...

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