William H. O'Brien Movies

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is...

A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad...

Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the...

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to...

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of...

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes...

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

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in...

Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have...

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order...

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken...

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program...

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.