Dave O'Brien Movies

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in,...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's...

In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his...

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a...

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of...

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. ...

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier...

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta. Following the...

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons...

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.