Spec O'Donnell Movies

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten...

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by...

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best...

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his...

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the...

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master...

An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York...

A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.