Olin Howland Movies

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back...

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

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards...

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 this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately,...

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.

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

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's...

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real...

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

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

Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat...

The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.

When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

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...

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