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Crane Wilbur
Director 1886 - 1973

Crane Wilbur

Athens, New York, USA

From Wikipedia Crane Wilbur (November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973) was an American writer, actor and director for stage, radio and screen. He was born in Athens, New York and died in Toluca Lake, California.

Directed Films

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10 titles
The Bat

The Bat

Crane Wilbur 1959 1h 20m 8.5

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat".

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

Crane Wilbur 1951 1h 27m 6.0

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

Outside the Wall

Outside the Wall

Crane Wilbur 1950 1h 20m

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium.

The Story of Molly X

The Story of Molly X

Crane Wilbur 1949 1h 22m

Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses to her that he killed Rick out of jealousy, she shoots him down immediately.

Canon City

Canon City

Crane Wilbur 1948 1h 22m

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

The Devil on Wheels

The Devil on Wheels

Crane Wilbur 1947 1h 7m

A teenager involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.

The Patient in Room 18

The Patient in Room 18

Crane Wilbur, Bobby Connolly 1938 57m

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories.

Navy Spy

Navy Spy

Crane Wilbur, Joseph H. Lewis 1937 1h 12m

A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.

Yellow Cargo

Yellow Cargo

Crane Wilbur 1936 1h 3m

An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.

Tomorrow's Children

Tomorrow's Children

Crane Wilbur 1934 50m 8.0

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't…

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