William Newell Movies

A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the...

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the...

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't...

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.

A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the...

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get...

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...