Hal K. Dawson Movies

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She...

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and...

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...