william wellman

As profiles of him are required to note, William A. Wellman was known as "Wild Bill" to friend and foe alike. But what's striking about the six Wellman-directed films in the third volume of Warner Bros.' "Forbidden Hollywood" DVD series, released this week, is their often ruthless discipline.However volatile Wellman was behind the camera -- he is reputed to have placed a truckload of manure atop a studio executive's desk, along with a copy of a script he found unworthy of his talents -- his movies are models of economy, whizzing past plot points at breakneck speed, sometimes so fast that they come into focus only in the rearview mirror.Wellman, who earned his nickname as a World War I aviator, brought a tough-minded sentimentality to such movies as "Wings" and "The Public Enemy." He had an omnivorous appetite for Hollywood genres, trying his hand at melodrama and screwball comedy, problem pictures and Tarzan movies, with varying degrees of success.

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www.Healthline.comDespite his antipathy to authority, Wellman was an energetic participant in the studio system, turning out as many as half a dozen films a year, a pace that reached its peak in the pre-code years.Previous "Forbidden Hollywood" sets emphasized the sexually liberated women and morally compromised men who ran rampant on screen in the years before 1934, when the enforcement of the production code imposed a conservative social and political agenda on the industry's output. But the half-dozen movies included here, all released between 1931 and 1933, aren't a particularly salacious bunch.There's plenty of behavior that would have been unthinkable under the code, including unpunished adultery in "Other Men's Women" and a mail-order marriage in "The Purchase Price," but little in the way of superfluous sex and violence. (For that, you have to turn to Wellman's "Night Nurse," released in Volume