William Witney — Director (17)
Bonanza: Ride the Wind (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ride the Wind
director: William Witney actor: Lorne Greene / Dan Blocker
other title: Die Männer aus Bonanza - Sie ritten wie der Wind / Bonanza: La película
The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe signing up as a rider. Adding to his concerns, the Paiute Indians don't want the Pony Express riding across their land, and the manager's assistant, Curtis Wade, is itching to make a name for himself as an Indian fighter. The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series "Bonanza", entitled "Ride the Wind"
Night Time in Nevada (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Night Time in Nevada
director: William Witney actor: Roy Rogers / Adele Mara
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
Apache Rose (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Apache Rose
director: William Witney actor: Roy Rogers / Trigger
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat determined to control the land (and oil) themselves.
Jungle Girl (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jungle Girl
other title: La fille de la jungle / 女泰山
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.
Home in Oklahoma (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Home in Oklahoma
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.
Paratroop Command (1959) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Paratroop Command
director: William Witney actor: Richard Bakalyan / Ken Lynch
other title: parachutistes commande / Comando paracaidista
Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.
Heldorado (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Heldorado
Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker who originated the idea (at least, in this film).In Las Vegas, Roy meets heiress Carol Randall, who has been selected as the Queen of the Heldorado. Roy is informed that the F.B.I. wants an immediate investigation of the counterfeit thousand dollar bills that are being passed over the gambling tables at the casino.
SOS Coast Guard (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
SOS Coast Guard
director: William Witney / Alan James actor: Bela Lugosi / Ralph Byrd
other title: S.O.S. Coast Guard
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Under California Stars (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Under California Stars
director: William Witney actor: Roy Rogers / Jane Frazee
other title: Balas Traiçoeiras / Sous la Californie Etoiles
On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Bonnie Parker Story
other title: La tigresa de texas / 邦妮·帕克的故事
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
Drums of Fu Manchu (1940) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Drums of Fu Manchu
other title: 傅满洲之鼓 / Dr. Fu Manchu
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesis, Dr. Nayland Smith, Qiwan.cc and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys.