William Bakewell Movies

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

A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.

After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has...

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a...

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...

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

William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit...

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...

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...

A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even...

A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.

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...