Hal K. Dawson Movies

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 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...

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

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

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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