Tom Dugan Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get...

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke,...

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to...

'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies....

Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife,...

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording...

The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be...

Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some...

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young...

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy...