Dave O'Brien Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides...

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a...

A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no...

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are...

The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.

Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He...

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it,...

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then,...

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious...

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...

A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their...

An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...