Hal K. Dawson Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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