Johnny Downs Movies

According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial,...

The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.

The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey gets the idea of building barricades to give our...

On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish...

An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and...

Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.

Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This...

In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a...

In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all...

As a boy, Tom Morley, was forced to watch the killings of his foster parents and the abduction of his foster sister. When he reaches manhood he joins...

Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 66th Our Gang short subject released. The kids go...

A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.

Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to...

Johnny tries to keep his marriage a secret from his boss, who feels that matrimony interferes with business.

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone....

Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.

The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter...

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to...

Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame.

In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety...