Gordon Hollingshead Movies

In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.

Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It...

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor...

Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.

Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

A prison Chaplain is forced to leave his post for health reasons, but fate provides him with another chance to reform an escaped convict.

A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the...

This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the...

Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of...

Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to...

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this...

U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.

Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office.

Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.

In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.

Documentary short preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.