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George William Hill is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 25 april 1895 at Douglass (USA)
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Clear All Wires! (1933)
, 1h18Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason, C. Henry Gordon, Alan Edwards
Rating60%
Hell Divers (1932)
, 1h49Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Marie Prevost
Rating63%
Chief Petty Officer "Windy" Riker (Beery)is a veteran aerial gunner of a Navy Helldiver dive bomber and the leading chief of Fighting Squadron One, about to go to Panama aboard the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier. He loses his five-year title of "champion machine gunner" after young C.P.O. Steve Nelson (Gable) joins the squadron. Windy, notorious for using his fists to enforce discipline, is charged by local police with wrecking a Turkish bath. Windy is saved from arrest, however, when Lieutenant Commander Jack Griffin ( Miljan), skipper of the squadron, intervenes on his behalf. Griffin and his second-in-command, Lieutenant "Duke" Johnson (Nagle), agree that Nelson is the best candidate to replace Windy as he ponders retirement.
The Secret Six (1931)
, 1h21Directed by George William Hill, George King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy
Rating62%
Pendant la prohibition, des gangs s'affrontent pour le contrôle des débits de boissons. Tribunal secret raconte l'ascension d'un second couteau. Wallace Beery, dans le rôle principal, incarne un ancien employé des abattoirs, Louis Scorpio, devenu homme de main de Newton, patron de la pègre. Clark Gable, dans un second rôle, interprète un journaliste qui couvre les faits divers à l'Examiner. Louis Scorpio tente de le corrompre pour l'inciter à soutenir dans la presse un homme de paille corrompu en lice pour les élections. Clark Gable refuse et s'engage dans la lutte contre la corruption en renseignant un tribunal secret, the Secret Six, qui lutte contre la pègre.
Min and Bill (1930)
, 1h6Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, DeWitt Jennings, Don Dillaway
Rating66%
Min Divot (Marie Dressler) runs a dockside inn. She has been raising Nancy Smith (Dorothy Jordan) as her own since her prostitute mother, Bella (Majorie Rambeau) left her at the inn as an infant. Min frequently argues with fisherman Bill (Wallace Beery). Despite Bill's near constant drinking, he and Min care for each other. She and Bill are the only ones who know the real identity of Nancy's real, still living, mother.
The Big House (1930)
, 1h27Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Robert Montgomery, Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, George F. Marion
Rating70%
Kent (Robert Montgomery), a young law-abiding man kills someone while driving drunk, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is placed in a cell with Butch (Wallace Beery) and Morgan (Chester Morris), the two leaders of the inmates. Butch is alternately menacing and friendly, while Morgan tries to help out the frightened, inexperienced youngster, but Kent rebuffs his overtures.
The Flying Fleet (1929)
Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Ramón Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Alfred Allen, Wade Boteler, Sumner Getchell
Rating64%
Six friends are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. They all hope to become aviators. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow (Ramon Navarro) has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate. Two return loudly drunk after curfew. Tommy is able to shut Steve (Ralph Graves) up (by knocking him out), but "Dizzy" is not so lucky. An officer hears him and has him dismissed from the Academy.
The Cossacks (1928)
, 1h14Directed by George William Hill, Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence, Nils Asther, Paul Hurst, Mary Alden
Rating67%
Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Sally O'Neil, Lawrence Gray, Eddie Gribbon, Frank Currier
Mrs. Callahan (Dressler) and Mrs. Murphy (Moran), are a couple of feuding tenement housewives working to keep control of their many children. Dan Murphy (Gray) falls in love with Ellen Callahan (O'Neill), and then later disappears after Ellen is pregnant. Mrs. Callahan (Dressler) decides to adopt the baby to save her daughters reputation, but later finds out that the baby is not illegitimate after all.
Buttons (1927)
, 1h10Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jackie Coogan, Lars Hanson, Gertrude Olmstead, Paul Hurst, Roy D'Arcy, Polly Moran
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The Barrier (1926)
, 1h10Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Norman Kerry, George Cooper, Bert Woodruff
Rating68%
Tell It to the Marines (1926)
, 1h43Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon, Carmel Myers, Warner Oland
Rating70%
In 1924, "Skeet" Burns applies to join the United States Marine Corps, but only to get a free train ride to San Diego, California. When he arrives, he escapes from veteran Marine Sergeant O'Hara and boards another train to "Tia Juana", Mexico for the horse races. However, upon his return, he enlists after all and comes under O'Hara's charge.
The Big Parade (1925)
, 2h21Directed by King Vidor, George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Karl Dane
Rating78%
In the United States in 1917, James "Jim" Apperson's (John Gilbert) idleness (in contrast to his hardworking brother) incurs the great displeasure of his wealthy businessman father. Then America enters World War I. Jim informs his worried mother that he has no intention of enlisting, and his father threatens to kick him out of the house if he does not join. However, when he runs into his patriotic friends at a send-off parade, he is persuaded to enlist, making his father very proud.
Zander the Great (1925)
, 1h20Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marion Davies, Emily Fitzroy, Hedda Hopper, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Harry Myers
Rating56%
Zander (Jack Huff) is a boy searching for his missing father. Mamie (Marion Davies) takes him out West, where a substitute father is found in a bootlegger who rescues them from bandits.
The Midnight Express (1924)
, 56minutesDirected by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Elaine Hammerstein, William Haines, George Nichols, Lloyd Whitlock, Edwin B. Tilton, Pat Harmon
Rating62%
Jack (Haines) is a young man who has a wild lifestyle. This displeases his father. Jack wants to prove to him he can be a hardworking man as well and decides to find work at a railroad yard as a laborer. Silent Bill Brachley is a convict who has escaped jail and steals Jack's car. Jack chases him and eventually meets Mary (Hammerstein). Brachley is led back to jail and swears revenge. He escapes jail yet again and confronts Jack. After Jack wins the fight, he receives the respect from his father and has Mary as his sweetheart.
Through the Dark (1924)
, 1h20Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Colleen Moore, Forrest Stanley, Margaret Seddon, Hobart Bosworth, Wade Boteler, George Cooper