Hal K. Dawson Movies

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of...

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his...

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,...

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

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

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

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and...

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

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

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.