William H. O'Brien Movies

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

A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.

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

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each...

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

Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.

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

Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name...

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

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins...

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but...

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...

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

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his...

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes...

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