Movies: Dave O'Brien

Someone has been stealing ore from a valuable smelting mine. One of the independent mine-owners victimized by the crooks is pretty Joan Manning, making the Rangers' mission a bit more pleasant....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood....

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire....

In this Pete Smith Specialty, the audience is asked multiple-choice questions about various sports. Depending on the question, the correct answer is revealed after 5 or 10 seconds....

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, but knows that Joe Funk, the studio custodian who cleans his office, is the one who is always fussing a...

Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them....

After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy....

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, ...

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony of enduring the dieting and weight-losing programs and exercises is compounded by the usual food-and...

A Pete Smith specialty....

An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother....

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them....

A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law....

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and machinery are misused and safety warnings are ignored....

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa....

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