The best Will Walling’s movies

Will Walling

Will Walling

02/06/1872- 05/03/1932
Today we present the best Will Walling’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Will Walling’s movies.
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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 06/10/1927
  • Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse
7.2/10
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/03/1931
  • Character: Kirby
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

Womanpower

Womanpower
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/09/1926
  • Character: Jake Killian (as William Walling)
Womanpower (1926)

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
5.6/10
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

Welcome Danger

Welcome Danger
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/10/1929
  • Character: Captain Walton, SFPD 3rd Div.
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

The Bad Sister

The Bad Sister
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/03/1931
  • Character: Townsman / Investor (uncredited)
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.

While Satan Sleeps

While Satan Sleeps
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/06/1922
  • Character: Bud Deming (as Will R. Walling)
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.

The Noose

The Noose
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1928
  • Character: Warden
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.

Abysmal Brute

Abysmal Brute
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/04/1923
  • Character: Farrell (as Will R. Walling)
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.

The Range Feud

The Range Feud
5.6/10
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.

The Trail Rider

The Trail Rider
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/02/1925
  • Character: Malcolm Duncan
Publicized as "A Red-Hot Romance of the Western Plains," this above-average Buck Jones oater features the rootin' tootin' star as Tex Hartwel, a cowboy who saves an old cobbler from being abused by a nasty banker (Carl Stockdale). The banker does not take kindly to Hartwell's interfering and orders his henchman to kill the upstart. Hartwell, alas, is the fastest gun in the territory and gets out of the scrap alive and kicking.

The Mating Call

The Mating Call
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/07/1928
  • Character: Uncle Billy - Townsman
Director James Cruze's 1928 silent film, with a plot involving infidelity in the Deep South, Ellis Island immigrants, and a Ku Klux Klan-like secret society.

The Temple of Venus

The Temple of Venus
6.8/10

Heroes of the Street

Heroes of the Street
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater but really wants to become a policeman to avenge the death of his father. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.

North of Hudson Bay

North of Hudson Bay
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 18/11/1923
  • Character: Angus McKenzie
On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. When he arrives at the Canadian trading post, Dane learns that his brother has been murdered and his partner sentenced to death as the killer.

Ridin' for Justice

Ridin' for Justice
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/01/1932
  • Character: Ranch Boss Tom Wilson (as William Walling)
More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.

Clash of the Wolves

Clash of the Wolves
6.5/10
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girl friend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.

The Siren Call

The Siren Call
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 17/09/1922
  • Character: Gore
Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.

Dark Streets

Dark Streets
5.5/10
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny turns to a life of crime. They now find themselves on the opposite sides of the law, and both are in love with a pretty Irish girl from their neighborhood, Kate Dean. Before long one has to prove that blood is thicker than water.

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