Hal K. Dawson Movies

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and...

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

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

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

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

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope"...

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her...

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

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....