William Bakewell Movies

On a cross-country Greyhound bus, passengers give historically dubious summaries of major landmarks. Riders include a grieving father of a fallen...

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community and rebuilds the faith of the residents. He...

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an...

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.

Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for...

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William...

A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

Bill is a young man who arrives at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is an incorrigible know-all, and emerges a sober man. Meanwhile, Bill is...

A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft...