Willie Best Movies

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

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

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

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding 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 movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...

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

Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.

During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers...

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

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an...

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 detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. ...