Hal K. Dawson Movies

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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...

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife. He is now a...

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

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

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

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

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of...

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

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

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...

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked...

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

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

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...

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a...