Gordon Hollingshead Movies

Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

A dog trains for the battlefield and becomes a crucial part of the United States military. This 1945 short documentary film was nominated for an...

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.

11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to...

Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but...

In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various...

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and...

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.

Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It...