Donald Haines Movies

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Kornman

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Holt

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bela Lugosi

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Gorcey

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Darro

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wallace Beery

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang...

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Cast: Marvin Stephens

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carey Wilson

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Sidney

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Sullavan

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Chaney

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Chaney

Uncle comes on a visit.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Haines

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Haines

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Winchell

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vera Zorina

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martha Raye

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Carrillo

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Warner Baxter

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Jordan

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain...

Genre: Action

Cast: Leo Gorcey

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Jordan

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Ames

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Genre: Family

Cast: Matthew Beard

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Genre: Western

Cast: Gene Autry

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Leo Gorcey

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bill Elliott

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Owen Davis Jr.

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Clark Gable

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to...

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Cast: El Brendel

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young