Donald Haines Movies

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

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...

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

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

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

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...

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...

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

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...

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

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...

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

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

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

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