Direction: Sam Wood

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


New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

1931 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast William Haines · Jimmy Durante · Ernest Torrence · Leila Hyams

Plot Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years. Jimmy's...

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The Cat and the Fiddle

1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard · Sam Wood

Cast Ramon Novarro · Jeanette MacDonald · Frank Morgan · Charles Butterworth

Plot Victor Florescu is a talented, Brussels-based composer of serious music under the tutelage of respected Professor Bertier at the Music Conservatory. He is hoping to have his yet uncompleted operetta,...

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Stablemates

1938 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Wallace Beery · Mickey Rooney · Arthur Hohl · Margaret Hamilton

Plot A broken down veterinarian saves a stable boy's prize racehorse.

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Hollywood Party

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski · Allan Dwan · Edmund Goulding · Russell Mack

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Jimmy Durante · Jack Pearl

Plot Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws...

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Fast Life

1932 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood · Harry A. Pollard

Cast William Haines · Madge Evans · Conrad Nagel · Arthur Byron

Plot Two people leave the US Navy after having served ten years as a sailor. Sandy is one of them and later invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that...

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The Girl Said No

1930 · Movie · 33 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast William Haines · Leila Hyams · Polly Moran · Marie Dressler

Plot A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.

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So This Is College

1929 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Elliott Nugent · Robert Montgomery · Cliff Edwards · Sally Starr

Plot Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors; roommates at the Fraternity; and star teammates on the USC Football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters...

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Bluff

1924 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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The Sins of the Children

1930 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Louis Mann · Robert Montgomery · Elliott Nugent · Leila Hyams

Plot A German immigrant to a small American town is a widower with four children and a barber. He has saved enough money to invest in a partnership in a savings-and-loan...

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Christopher Bean

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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Stamboul Quest

1934 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Myrna Loy · George Brent · Lionel Atwill · C. Henry Gordon

Plot In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the...

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Lord Jeff

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Mickey Rooney · Charles Coburn · Herbert Mundin

Plot Spoilt child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is...

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Excuse My Dust

1920 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Wallace Reid · Ann Little · Theodore Roberts · Guy Oliver

Plot A race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore, yet later on, his wife takes their infant...

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It's a Great Life

1929 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

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Huddle

1932 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Ramon Novarro · Madge Evans · Una Merkel · Ralph Graves

Plot Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the...

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The Fair Co-Ed

1927 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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They Learned About Women

1930 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway · Sam Wood

Cast Joe Schenck · Gus Van · Bessie Love · Mary Doran

Plot When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold...

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Her Husband's Trademark

1922 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gloria Swanson · Richard Wayne · Stuart Holmes · Lucien Littlefield

Plot Gloria Swanson plays the stunning Lois Miller, who married James Berkeley (Stuart Holmes). But Lois is just a trophy for James. Lois does not realize this until her former suitor,...

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Let 'em Have It

1935 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Richard Arlen · Virginia Bruce · Alice Brady · Bruce Cabot

Plot We follow the training and adventures of a team of young federal anti-gangster agents, Mal Stevens, Van Rensseler, and Tex Logan. After foiling a kidnap attempt on socialite Eleanor Spencer...

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