Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five...

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

Produced in 1941, this film was sponsored by Alco Locomotives & General Electric, so naturally their railroad equipment is featured front and center.

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So...

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's...

On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...

This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who lived the first half of the 19th century.