William H. O'Brien Movies

A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.

In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.

A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just...

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who...

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his...

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends...

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity,...

An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is...

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.