Hal K. Dawson Movies

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 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...

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

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...

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

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

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

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.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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...

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.

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.