Hal K. Dawson Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...

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

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

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

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...

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

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...

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

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"...

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

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