Hal K. Dawson Movies

Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob...

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.

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

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

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

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

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.

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...

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 woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

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...

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

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

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

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...

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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...

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

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...