Hal K. Dawson Movies

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

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...

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...

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...

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

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...

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by...

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

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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 small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

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...

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

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

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

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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