The best William Welsh’s movies

William Welsh

William Welsh

09/02/1870- 16/07/1946
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best William Welsh’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about William Welsh.
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One More River

One More River
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/08/1934
  • Character: Juryman (Uncredited)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

The Shock

The Shock
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/06/1923
  • Character: Mischa Hadley
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.

Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1935
  • Character: Conductor
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6.1/10
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.

Elusive Isabel

Elusive Isabel
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/05/1916
  • Character: Chief Campbell
Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.

Sundown Trail

Sundown Trail
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/09/1931
  • Character: Pa Stoddard
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.

Cavalry

Cavalry
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/10/1936
  • Character: General John Harvey
Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.

Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning
4.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/08/1927
  • Character: George Clearwater (as William Welch)
Steve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.

Lightning Speed

Lightning Speed
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 26/08/1928
  • Character: Governor Standish
Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falls in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet is attempting to kidnap Betty in order to force her father to pardon a relative on death row.

Companionate Marriage

Companionate Marriage
Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".

Traffic in Souls

Traffic in Souls
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/11/1913
  • Character: William Trubus
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

Beyond the Rockies

Beyond the Rockies
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/09/1932
  • Character: John Allen
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.

Neptune's Daughter

Neptune's Daughter
5.8/10
  • Genre: Fantasy
  • Release: 25/04/1914
  • Character: King Neptune (as William Welch)
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible.

The Love Trader

The Love Trader
7.5/10
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?

The Foolish Virgin

The Foolish Virgin
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/09/1916
  • Character: Jim's father
A 1916 film.

The Lords of High Decision

The Lords of High Decision
  • Release: 28/02/1916
Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees, Wayne Craighill joins the old man's mining business. Adding to the strain between father and son, Wayne soon falls in love with Jean, the daughter of a small mine owner whom the Colonel wants to put out of business.

The Heart of Humanity

The Heart of Humanity
5.9/10
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.

The Mississippi Gambler

The Mississippi Gambler
5.1/10
He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life he threw away the winning hand; She was the beautiful daughter of a Southern gentleman; yet she fell in love with the gambler. How? Why? See the answer in this utterly charming, smashingly dramatic and colorful romance of river days fraught with adventure.

Daredevil's Reward

Daredevil's Reward
3.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/01/1928
  • Character: James Powell (as William Welch)
Tom Mix portrayed a daredevil ranger on the trail of a gang of outlaws. To get close to the gang, Tom utilizes various cunning disguises, including donning the garb of a medicine man. Along the way, complications arise when Tom falls for the niece (Natalie Joyce) of the gang leader (William Welch).

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
3.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1920
  • Character: Pa Benton
The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.

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