Spec O'Donnell Movies

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival barker, and then falling for a young engineer.

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

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

Tod Weaver finds his career on the skids and feels frustrated playing small-time venues. Tod is romantically tied to Gale Starr, an assistant conductor or singer who works in a top-notch club. Prompted by a helpful janitor named Exodus Johnson, Tod's band pivo...

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride,...

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak),his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene...

Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

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 starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush...

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

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

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

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 Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were fl...

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lo...

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.

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