Hal K. Dawson Movies

The rugged editor of a city newspaper poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance...

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with...

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the...

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

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...

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the...

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight....

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...