Pat O’Brien Movies

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and...

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She...

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the...