William Bakewell Movies

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.

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is...

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.

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

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

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...

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

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...

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 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...

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

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

When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles...

The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to...

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

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

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement...

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...

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