Donald Haines Movies

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

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

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

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

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.

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

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...

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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...

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

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting...

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

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

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