Hal K. Dawson Movies

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope"...

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

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...

In a Vienna apartment building, a handsome but conceited actor terrorizes a neighboring family into moving out. However, when he's found murdered,...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his...

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