Donald Haines Movies

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

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

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

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

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

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...

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

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...

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

Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and...

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

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

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...

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...

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.