Hal K. Dawson Movies

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters...

Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife. He is now a...

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

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...

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a...

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

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

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

In a Vienna apartment building, a handsome but conceited actor terrorizes a neighboring family into moving out. However, when he's found murdered,...

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...

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of...

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.

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She...

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.