William Newell Movies

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer...

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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...

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

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...

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous...

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.