William Watson

Heroes in Blue (1939)

Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder. ...

Cactus Caballeros (1938)

Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit. ...

Money on Your Life (1938)

This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy. ...

Beautiful, But Dummies (1938)

Buster West and Tom Patricola deliver a wax model to Madame LaTour's fashion show, and decide to help the models who are having trouble with the director, who is going to fire them because they won't date him. So they introduce the dummy to the director as ...

Love and Onions (1938)

Herman and Pat, college youths, are employed after hours in a food market but are fired by the owner. The latter has an old maid sister who has been trying to marry her brother's business rival for years, while Herman is in love with the market owner's dau ...

Cupid Takes a Holiday (1938)

Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, t ...

Getting an Eyeful (1938)

Nickotai (Danny Kaye) needs an eye test and is the first patient of 'eyetestometist' Henry Groper. ...

Trailer Paradise (1937)

With Buddy Page and his Orchestra providing most of the music, an uncle of the Cabin Kids loads them in a trailer and heads for Florida. There, he finds the trailer camp needs a cook, so they find their "heaven" right there as he goes to work on fried chic ...

Hurray for Hooligan (1937)

Promoters Buster and Tom pick up a prizefighter with a knock-out punch but learn that he won't put up a fight unless he is mad, and the only thing that makes him mad is the sight of a bearded man. They arrange a fight with the world's champion and get grea ...

The Smart Way (1937)

Professor Pierre Ginsberg is having wife trouble and, on the advice of his lawyer, sets out to wear her down with kindness; she wants constant entertainment his lawyer promises him that a month of dancing and entertainment will eventually kill her or, at l ...

The Timid Ghost (1937)

In this delightfully spooky supernatural farce, from the later days of Educational Pictures, character actor Charles Kemper is haunted by a ghost he buys from a drunk. ...

Will You Stop? (1937)

Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony. ...

Who's Crazy (1937)

Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man ...

Her Accidental Hero (1937)

Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring. ...

Dental Follies (1937)

A dentist moves the drilling chair into a nightclub, treating his patient's pain with heavy doses of vaudeville acts. ...

The Big Courtship (1937)

An Educational Pictures short starring Tim and Irene Ryan. ...

Hold It! (1937)

The Wacky Family (1936)

Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene in their new country home to see how his employees live. But Irene's wacky family----Ma, Pa and Brother---have moved in with them and converted the home int ...

The Queen's Birthday (1936)

Queen Mary Lou's minister gives a speech that sends the courtiers to sleep. This allows the Queen to sneak out, where she finds people holding a party with entertainment. ...

Bashful Buddies (1936)

Pals Herman and Pat, with diamond rings in hand, are all set to make marriage proposals. Pat is bashful, however, so Herman broaches the subject to Pat's girl. The girl's parents think Herman is the suitor, and invite him to dinner. Meanwhile, Herman's own ...

Peaceful Relations (1936)

An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan. ...

Just Plain Folks (1936)

In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr, to meet her family. He is ignored, insulted and relieved of his cash for a raffle in which he is not allowed to participate, and is finally deserted when ...

Hillbilly Love (1935)

The two youngsters who want to get married are from either side of the feuding clans. As the preparations are made -- buying cigars and cleaning the rifles -- Frank Luther sings some hillbilly songs, assisted by a band which includes Ray Whitley. But can a ...

Rodeo Day (1935)

Frank Luther was a famous country music singer back in the 1930s. As a result of this success, he was able to make a few films. There isn't a ton of plot in this short and what plot there is seems to be an excuse for all sorts of musical performances. ...

The Life of the Party (1935)

At a high-society house party, the hostess finds herself short of the expected booked-talent, and discovers the five kids of the kitchen maid singing up a storm. She brings them to the party as performers. The Six Mountain Melodeers also sing a song. ...

The Old Camp Ground (1935)

At a Union-Army Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, a group of Union soldiers and their Confederate prisoners engage in a singing contest, each trying to outdo the previous offering. ...

The Song Plugger (1935)

Sylvia Froos is working as a singing song-plugger and is about to get fired because no sales result after she has sung a song. But another singer, who has been trying to get her to team up with him, intercedes and starts vocalizing a duet with her. A crowd ...

Gay Old Days (1935)

Frank Luther and company, dressed up for the Gay 90s, perform a street scene and various old songs, including "A Thousand Times No", "When You and I Were Young, Maggie", and because the duck one of them is carrying seems to prefer it, "Clementine. ...

The House Where I Was Born (1934)

After a man and woman fail to sell any of their songs, the woman receives news from home and the man reflects through song about his childhood home. ...

Dog-gone Babies (1934)

In this short film from Educational Pictures, Ernest Truex stars as a man who doesn't like kids and prefers dogs. This gets him in good with the boss, as several other potential candidates for a transfer to South America were ineligible since they had fami ...

She's My Lilly, I'm Her Willie (1934)

A star goes on a cruise under a false name to enjoy his vacation. When people accidently believe he is a wanted criminal he performs a few acts to prove his real identity. ...

Good Luck - Best Wishes (1934)

Solly is in love with Jane but Jane's father can't afford a big wedding. So he schemes with Solly's father, his business partner, to stage a big quarrel that will prompt Jane and Solly to elope. Complications arise. ...

Hello, Sailors (1934)

Tom Patricola & Buster West as a couple of sailors looking for their dates. ...

Going Spanish (1934)

A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope. ...

Divorce Sweets (1933)

A pair of private detectives, Peek and Boo, are hired to prove a wife is cheating to secure a divorce for her husband. The film focuses on the humorous, somewhat strange attempts of the detectives to catch the wife in the act. ...

The Last Dogie (1933)

Men are relaxing in the bunkhouse, when in walks James Melton, who sings some old songs. After he goes through "Red River Valley", "Home on the Range", "The Big Corral", and "The Old Chisholm Trail" -- while the screen shows cowboys wrangling cattle -- he ...

The Freshman's Finish (1931)

At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duff ...

Girls Will Be Boys (1931)

A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience. ...