Philip W. Anderson Movies

Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit....

Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the...

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

After their mother remarries, two brothers cause chaos at their Aunt's home.

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

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper...

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.