William H. O'Brien Movies

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money...

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...

Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.

Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage"...

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later...

Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year...

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the...

A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health...

The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in...

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...

Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes...

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with...

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.