William J. O'Brien Movies

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire....

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito...

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master...

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio...

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway...

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...

A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry....

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if...

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but...

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.