William H. O'Brien Movies

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.

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

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though...

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact...

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

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

Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.

Bob Rogers ('Lloyd Hughes'), a former World War One flying ace, loses his license after crashing an airplane while drunk. He works his way back into...

Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and...

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 teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

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...

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay...

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

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

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.