Donald Haines Movies

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 program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved cond...

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

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 dogcatcher.

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

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

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang preparing for a Christmas party for the poor kids in the neighborhood.

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 indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

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 hire married men.

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

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 from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use...

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

Uncle comes on a visit.

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

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

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 Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their proble...