Movies: Dave O'Brien

Peggy Barlou is a young rancher who refuses to sell her spread to greedy stage-line proprietor John Rankin. Tex Haines, meanwhile, is accused of killing Bill Dugan, Rankin's bodyguard, but eludes capture long enough to hook up with Dave Wyatt and Pan...

A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood....

In this Pete Smith Specialty, the audience is asked multiple-choice questions about various sports. Depending on the question, the correct answer is revealed after 5 or 10 seconds....

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline....

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building....

Pete Smith special about billiard....

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them....

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to ...

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth....

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire....

A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short....

Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess....

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time....

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts....

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, ...

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills....

A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about....