William Bakewell Movies

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are...

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

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...

Traveling north into Arizona, Cisco finds that someone committing robberies has been impersonating him and he is a wanted man. After retrieving some...

Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus....

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

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

A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich...

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

Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.

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

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

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the...

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...

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...

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

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by...