Spec O'Donnell Movies

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless...

Genre: Music

Cast: Grace Moore

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Fonda

When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.

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Cast: Richard Carle

Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Fazenda

The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Errol

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marceline Day

The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Davidson

John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits...

Genre: Western

Cast: Buck Jones

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Davidson

Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen...

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Cast: George Jessel

This short subject was done by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm boys shortly after they finished The King of Jazz where lead singer Bing Crosby made his motion...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nat Carr

A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dixie Dunbar

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Taylor

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Litel

No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lila Lee

Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Davidson

An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Davidson

Max mistakes his son's acting for reality. When the play calls for the son to commit a murder (on a mannequin), Max winds up trying to hide the body...

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Cast: Max Davidson

A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nat Carr

A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olive Borden

While Spec's father is ill, he takes over as conductor on the miniature railroad.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spec O'Donnell

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Daw

A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Blanche Mehaffey

Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anita Garvin

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kris Kristofferson

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wallace Beery

Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his...

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Cast: Eddie Cantor

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old...

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Quillan

Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mae Clarke

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Quillan

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

Genre: Music

Cast: James Melton

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Wyman

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Purcell

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

Genre: Action

Cast: Beverly Roberts

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lois Wilson

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Brian Donlevy

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Powell

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Pickford

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Davidson

The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Granger

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosemary Lane

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Baker

When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Daniels

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patricia Ellis

Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning. Special...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bebe Daniels

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fred Astaire

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Farrell

Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Baby Peggy

A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ronald Reagan

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

Rolly Sigsby, a society clubman bitterly weary of life, wanders into the middle of a gunfight between the organized gangs on the lower East side in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Murray

An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to...

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Cast: Leatrice Joy

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: David Manners

Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Cary Grant

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Mauch

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenda Farrell

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ole Olsen

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Bracken

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lon Chaney Jr.

The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Meighan

Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wesley Barry

Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Fazenda

A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Nugent

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and...

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Cast: Johnny Hines

A comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andy Clyde

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Coburn

A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Fazenda

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Alice wants desperately to get out of practicing her piano so she can go have fun with her friends. She tricks her mother into thinking she's still...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Virginia Davis

A railroad engineer and his wife try to stop a gang of robbers from holding up their train.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Holmes

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Sullavan