Will Wright Movies

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.

At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business....

Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the...

A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to...

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He...

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a...

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women"...

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the...

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which...

Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him...

Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.

The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns...

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two...