Hal K. Dawson Movies

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by...

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

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

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...

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...

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

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly...

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

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

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

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