William Keighley — Director (14)
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The Singing Kid (1936)
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William Keighley actor: Al Jolson / Sybil Jason …
other title: 歌唱的孩子 / 歌壇風月 …
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
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William Keighley actor: Priscilla Lane / Jeffrey Lynn …
other title: Le Printemps de la vie
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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Target for Today (1944)
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William Keighley
A bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning for the mission through final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.
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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)
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William Keighley actor: Aline MacMahon / Guy Kibbee …
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Kansas City Princess (1934)
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William Keighley actor: Joan Blondell / Glenda Farrell …
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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The Match King (1932)
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Howard Bretherton / William Keighley actor: Warren William / Lili Damita …
other title: Le Roi des allumettes
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Rocky Mountain (1950)
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William Keighley actor: Errol Flynn / Patrice Wymore …
other title: Olhando a Morte de Frente / Herr der rauhen Berge …
A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.
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Ladies They Talk About (1933)
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Howard Bretherton / William Keighley actor: 芭芭拉·斯坦威克 / Preston Foster …
other title: 他们谈论的女人 / Women in Prison …
Gun moll Nan Taylor, caught after an otherwise successful bank robbery, falls for radio crusader David Slade and confides her guilt to him. Much to her surprise, he turns her in. As a "new fish" at San Quentin, Nan fits right in, but won't see Slade, who still loves her. Then she learns that her former partners in crime, Don and Dutch, are on the other side of the wall in the men's section...and have an escape plan.