Leslie Goodwins Movies

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....

A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.

A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else,...

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in...

Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire"...

1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.

Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California.

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous...

Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.

Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by.

Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. ...

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

An angel returns to Earth to help a Broadway producer put on a show, so a struggling young actress will have a job.

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by...

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