Hal K. Dawson Movies

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife,...

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

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 female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters...

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...

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

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

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

A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by...

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...

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

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 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...

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of...

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

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...