Hal K. Dawson Filmes

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling...

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer...

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war...

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too....

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.