William J. O'Brien Movies

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to...

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive...

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and...

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip...

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito...

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master...

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen...

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their...

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and...

A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.