Pete Smith Movies

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B....

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor