William Newell Movies

A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders,...

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...

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

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he...

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

Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the...

In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with...

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

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.

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...

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...

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...

On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another...

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?

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