Movies by Hobart Cavanaugh

The Adventures of Jane Arden

The Adventures of Jane Arden

Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.

The Firebird

The Firebird

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at thei...

Home Movies

Home Movies

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

Louisiana Hayride

Louisiana Hayride

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

San Francisco Nights

San Francisco Nights

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

Hi, Nellie!

Hi, Nellie!

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and ...

An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Stage to Chino

Stage to Chino

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

Sympathy

Sympathy

Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.

Reported Missing

Reported Missing

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

Street of Memories

Street of Memories

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 that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.

Love Letters of a Star

Love Letters of a Star

A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.

Carnival Queen

Carnival Queen

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 carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.