Donald Haines Movies

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to...

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to...

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang...