William C. McGann Movies

Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment,...

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.

Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting...

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the...

A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep...

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is...

A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.