Leslie Goodwins Movies

The Go-Getter (1956)

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else,...

Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.

A thief steals a $10,000 string of pearls from the star of a show. The thief runs into Ben (literally), and in the ensuing chaos the thief ends up...

The film begins with Ben Turpin looking for some food. He's a hobo and is resorting to trying to steal food from a baby. That 'baby' is actually four...

A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the...

1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in...

Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food.

Leon forgets his wedding anniversary and is in the doghouse checking the date on his wedding certificate and learns that it wasn't signed, so...

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....

Leon Errol invites Lord Epping for dinner, then impersonates him when he expects his Lordship is otherwise engaged.

Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by...

Poodles Hanneford comedy produced and distributed by the Weiss Brothers.

Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but...

Nick Stuart and his band masquerade as an all-girl band as part of their plan of getting to play at a dance at a swanky girl's-only school. They get...