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William Bowers (Las Cruces, 1916 - Woodland Hills, California, 1987) was a reporter in Long Beach, California before becoming a screenwriter and specializing in writing comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers. His first credited screenplay was My Favorite Spy in 1942.
His career noticeably picked up after his Oscar nomination for the gritty Gregory Peck Western The Gunfighter in 1950, leading to such assignments as the remake of My Man Godfrey in 1957 and The Sheepman in 1958 (a second Oscar nomination).
Bowers produced the last film that he wrote, the superior Western parody Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969). He also had a bit part as an actor in The Godfather Part II (1974).
Most Popular William Bowers Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
20 December 1974
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York.
01 November 1948
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
27 May 1961
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
20 August 1958
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.
07 October 1980
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
09 May 1979
The intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after 10 years to hunt down a cunning new adversary, the son of their former archenemy, who is suspected of cloning imposters to be substituted for the crowned heads of Europe and perhaps even the President of the United States.
11 May 1952
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians.
13 November 1942
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen.
02 May 1953
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
07 February 1947
A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.
21 March 1974
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw.
11 October 1957
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job.
26 May 1950
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
02 September 1975
A TV reporter whose career was ruined by his drinking gets another chance when he is hired by a TV news program.
28 September 1956
Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team.
26 March 1969
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
19 August 1943
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only".
10 June 1964
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col.
02 July 1946
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital.
15 February 1954
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
11 November 1959
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
04 February 1949
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
19 March 1955
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster.
01 May 1958
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with.
31 October 1948
This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats.
01 September 1949
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
10 June 1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
23 February 1951
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
20 March 1959
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James.
11 August 1948
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
08 October 1947
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California.
06 June 1958
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them.
01 August 1950
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
17 February 1948
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning.
04 June 1947
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
03 September 1948
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial.
08 December 1950
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
14 February 1946
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
20 May 1948
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver.
07 September 1951
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
04 September 1952
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
26 October 1966
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
01 May 1967
Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
01 October 2023
August, a former preacher with a dark past, is stuck in a lucid dream where he faces his worst nightmare---his own shadow.
03 April 1974
In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush.
21 July 1947
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
15 December 1946
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money.
14 November 1945
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances.
26 May 1978
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
