William Newell Movies

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

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

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...

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

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...

Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial...

To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.

A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders,...

In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with...

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying....

An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to...

Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of...

On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...