Donald Haines Movies

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

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

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

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...

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.

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

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

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

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

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.

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

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

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

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...

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to...

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...

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