Hal K. Dawson Movies

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 millionaire courts a working-class woman.

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 nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of...

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a...

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...

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

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

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

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

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

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

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

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

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...