Directing

William A. O'Connor

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Known for

The Pace That Kills poster
3.1

A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.

The Pace That Kills

1935

No artwork available
10.0

Elsie Peyton’s parents favor two different men for her. Dad likes Bruce Farney, as does Elsie while Mom prefers Bob Howard. The domineering Mrs. Peyton sees to it that football player Bruce is discouraged from taking Elsie to the game. Bruce stops in a barbershop where Minette, the manicurist flirts with him to make barber Ed jealous. Disappointed when he sees Elsie with Bob at the game Bruce follows them in his car. Meanwhile, Mrs. Peyton calls Minette to the house for a manicure. When the trio arrive from the game the house is suddenly placed under a 2-week quarantine for smallpox. Hilarious complications ensue as Bruce is obliged to room with his rival, but by a clever trick Bruce marries Elsie despite the quarantine.

Quarantined Rivals

1927

Ten Nights in a Bar-room poster
5.6

A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

Ten Nights in a Bar-room

1931

Moonland poster
6.0

The Man in the Moon invites little Mickey and his dog over for a visit. They go on a magical trip and meet strange characters along the way.

Moonland

1926

The Cheyenne Tornado poster
8.0

A cowboy steps in when cattlemen try to force a sheepherder off the range.

The Cheyenne Tornado

1935

The Pace That Kills poster
6.0

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

The Pace That Kills

1928

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Pace That Kills poster
3.1

A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.

The Pace That Kills

1935

Ten Nights in a Bar-room poster
5.6

A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

Ten Nights in a Bar-room

1931

Moonland poster
6.0

The Man in the Moon invites little Mickey and his dog over for a visit. They go on a magical trip and meet strange characters along the way.

Moonland

1926

The Cheyenne Tornado poster
8.0

A cowboy steps in when cattlemen try to force a sheepherder off the range.

The Cheyenne Tornado

1935

The Pace That Kills poster
6.0

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

The Pace That Kills

1928

Her Splendid Folly poster
7.0

Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.

Her Splendid Folly

1933

Confessions of a Vice Baron poster
4.7

On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.

Confessions of a Vice Baron

1943

Chiselers of Hollywood poster
10.0

Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.

Chiselers of Hollywood

1930

The Drifter poster
6.0

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.

The Drifter

1932

The Primrose Path poster
9.0

A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.

The Primrose Path

1931