Wings (1927)

Wings (1927)

Paramount

May 19, 1927

War Drama, Romance

DVD
C-

I'm not into silents or war movies, but Clara Bow is a cutie.  William A. Wellman and Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast co-directed.

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

20th Century Fox

May 21, 1943

Western

DVD

D+

Other than seeing a relatively young Harry Morgan (28), there's not much to capture my interest here.  This is based on Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel, and directed by William A. Wellman.

Nothing Sacred

Spoiler on the original poster!

Nothing Sacred
United Artists
November 25, 1937
Comedy, Romance
DVD
C+

I really don't know what I think of this movie and I was on the C/C+ fence in the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes.  Ultimately, I can marginally recommend it, for its cast and some of its script.  I like some of the offbeat humor, like the Calvin Coolidge joke (yes, I am the world's oldest 52-year-old), as well as its observations about the press.  Given the title, I guess I shouldn't be too shocked that a couple has a fistfight, while declaring their love, even though he keeps telling her to shut up and she's lied to him and the world, especially New York City, about having radium poisoning.  This is that odd movie that is a comedy and a romance without at all being a romcom, although, yeah, it's got a heck of a meet-cute.

William A. Wellman directed this eighteen years before Blood Alley.

Blood Alley

Blood Alley
Warner Bros.
October 1, 1955
Drama
DVD
D

Wayne talks and talks in the first quarter-hour, especially when he monologues.  Bacall isn't given much to do, and Mazurki (who a few years later would get a plum of a role in Some Like It Hot) of course doesn't seem the slightest bit Chinese.  A.S. Fleischman adapted his novel and William A. Wellman directed, with the Duke according to IMDB.