Donald Haines Movies

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

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...

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

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

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

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

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...

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...

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

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...

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.

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to...

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

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