Willie Best Movies

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

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself...

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with...

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically...

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is...

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his...

After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes...

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.

A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.

Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie"...

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on...

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the...