Fred Kelsey Movies

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.

A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking...

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a...

U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's...

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.

John Gregg and his daughter Mary, on their way to Burro Springs, a boom mining town, lose their way and stumble into "Jawbone," a dilapidated town....

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading...

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.

Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.