William Newell Movies

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

Jewel thieves battle investigators.

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the...

A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying....

A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets....

Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the...

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of...

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get...