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...

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and...

Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a...

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

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

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

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

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her...

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

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her...

An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help...

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

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the...

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

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

A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them....