Wells Root

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Director), 27 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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A sailor on a South Seas island falls in love with a native girl. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
A Texan, an Indian and a Spanish noblemen join forces against their enemies. (TCM.com)
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying that they are friends, Morgan wants to buy the ranch before Hardy forecloses, and Gil will sell, but Lopez shows up with all his men and holds them all captive. Lopez has his own law, carried out with a 44 - and he plans to settle everything according to his vision of life. (imdb)
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian. (imdb)
Mike is a great tuna fisherman though he lost a hand to a shark years earlier saving Pipes Boley. Now Mike is happily married to Quita and doesn't notice that Pipes and Quita are falling for each other. (imdb)
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter. (imdb)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob's secrets. (TCM.com)
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant. (imdb)
Jim Knight is the captain of a ship trading in the South Seas. He runs into trouble when he makes port at an island where crooks Malone and Ross hold the natives under their cruel domination while they seek a fortune in pearls. Knight and his crew are taken prisoners and he falls for native princess Mareva, and her non-plump charms are more than enough motivation for Knight to put an end to Malone and his henchmen, and also the the greedy police commissioner Lamoret. (imdb)
In this crime drama, a government agent pretends to be a convict so he can get the goods on the gang of a dangerous inmate in this crime drama. As per the plan, the agent stages a prison break, thereby allowing his fellow G-men to mow down the entire gang. (allrovi.com)
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas. (imdb)
A retired Marine gets caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign. (tcm.com)
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined. (imdb)
Haworth is a show biz producer who has a number of ex-girlfriends that he has beaten over the years. He is now engaged to two girls- Lisa and Trenna. After drinking and starting a fight with Sim, Haworth is found dead in his apartment. Everyone has a reason to kill him, but most of the blame is falling on Sim and his love Trenna. If they are to be cleared, it is up to Aunt Melissa to find the killer - and she thinks she knows who is was. (imdb)
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one. (imdb)
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and is suckered into posing as her husband.
Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite in fashionable Peacock Alley of Stoddard Channing, she wastes no time. Claire wants to get married. But, Stoddard, whom she cares for very much, has several proposals directed at her, none of which sound remotely like a marriage proposal; Claire tells him "I'm running away from the doubts and uncertainty and problems of a woman who isn't married." (imdb)
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (imdb)
A tugboat captain (Wallace Beery) serves under his rival (Chester Morris) as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Julie has a star crossed romance with Sam, leaning on pal Cassie when unhappy. When Sam is believed dead Cassie urges Julie to take up with good guy Pat. When Sam returns Cassie tries to do the right thing by her best friend. (imdb)
George Pearson, who works for a underwear firm that is 20 years out of date, invests his own money in a new type of thread. The company are not interested in changes, and he is fired. Later the firm discover that the thread has revolutionized the garment industry, they move quickly, to hire him back, before the opposition hear the news, and make him a better offer. (imdb)
The blacksheep son of a wealthy Southern family returns to his family's plantation after he spends five years on the road as a hobo.