William H. O'Brien Movies

A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is...

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who...

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum...

European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find...

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a...

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends...