Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.

Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid...

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to...

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.

A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses...

Produced in 1941, this film was sponsored by Alco Locomotives & General Electric, so naturally their railroad equipment is featured front and center.

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So...

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers...

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too...

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who lived the first half of the 19th century.

A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.