Crane Wilbur Movies

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They...

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

A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile...

This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental...

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who...

A teenager is 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...

When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political...

A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is...