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
Direction William McGann
Cast Jean Hersholt · Dorothy Lovett · Edgar Kennedy · Rod La Rocque
Plot rama r
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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
Direction William McGann · Alan Crosland
Cast Ricardo Cortez · June Travis · Craig Reynolds · Jane Bryan
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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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