Donald Haines Movies

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting...

Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and...

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father...

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang...

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Grumpy uncle comes to visit but the gang of kids soon have him smiling!