Olin Howland Movies

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically...

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every...

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by...

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.

By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero...

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband,...

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio...

Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.