Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid...

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 harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.

A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.

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...

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls...

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers...

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree...

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil...

A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.

A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by...

Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog...

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

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

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