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...

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

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked...

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.