Hal K. Dawson Movies

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

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the...

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight....

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with...

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

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...

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...

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a...

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

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...

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

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

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...

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...

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

In 1880s New York City newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing...

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