William H. O'Brien Movies

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.

A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the...

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of...

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with...

Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his...

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the...

A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

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

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes...