Hal K. Dawson Movies

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

In 1880s New York City newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing...

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

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...

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

A man violates company policy by getting married.

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

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

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"...

Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife. He is now a...

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of...

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...

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

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his...

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